SANGHAR, April 10: A village comprising about 200 houses was gutted by a fire in Qaim Makrani village on Shahdadpur-Tando Adam road 42km from here on Wednesday.

Two villagers and more than 50 cattlehead suffered burn injuries and around 4,000 maunds of wheat, household articles, gold ornaments, some donkey carts, a tube-well and an electric transformer were also destroyed in the fire.

The fire initially erupted in the house of Rasool Bukhsh Halepoto and was spread it to other houses by fast-blowing winds.

The fire was so intense that some eight heaps of harvested wheat, lying 2,000 feet away from the village, also caught fire and were completely burnt.

Non-availability of water made it difficult for the villagers to extinguish the fire as they had to fetch water from distant watercourses but by the time they returned with water, the fire had engulfed entire village.

The villagers informed fire brigade at Tando Adam but it could not reach on time. When fire tenders reached the village, everything had turned into ashes.

An old man, Sanwan Halepoto, and a seven-year-old girl, Ansa, who suffered burn injuries, were later shifted to the taluka Hospital.