KOTA KINABALU: Over 1,500 people were made homeless in a pre-dawn fire that destroyed some 250 squatter homes in northern Kudat.
Kudat district officer Sapdin Ibrahim said there were no reports of casualties as villagers of the wooden stilt houses at Kg Landung Ayang Laut some 3km from Kudat town managed to flee when the fire started at about 5am on Monday.
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