150 left homeless in longhouse fire


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 09 Apr 2017

MIRI: A fire swept through a longhouse, leaving some 150 people from 17 families in the Rumah Saba settlement homeless. 

The fire, which started at 10am Sunday, spread through the longhouse in Sarikei Division, central Sarawak, within minutes as it was made entirely of wood. 

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