MIRPURKHAS: 3 houses gutted

Published May 2, 2002

MIRPURKHAS, May 1: Three houses were gutted in Haji Sagheer Arain village, near Mirwah town, when fire broke out in a house.

As many s 12 buffaloes and fifteen goats were burnt to death while hundreds of maunds wheat, gold ornaments and household articles worth lakhs of rupees were reduced to ashes.

The fire broke out in the house when a women was preparing meals and engulfed the neighbouring houses. The houses of Imamuddin, Yaqoob and Bahadur were gutted.—BoC

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