Fire rips through Indonesia museum

In ruins: Firefighters working to extinguish a fire inside the 17th-century Dutch colonial building maritime museum in Jakarta. — AFP

JAKARTA: A fire ripped through a 17th century Dutch colonial building that houses a maritime museum in the Indonesian capital, causing extensive damage to its historical collections.

Museum head Husnizon Nizar said there were no casualties from the fire that swept through one of the museum’s three historic buildings yesterday. It took about four hours for fire fighters to extinguish it.