Number of hotspots increasing like wildfire


PETALING JAYA: Open, peat and bushfires are breaking out at the rate of 305 a day across the country as the dry spell continues.

In the first 18 days of this month 5,485 such fires were reported, compared with 440 for the whole of February last year.

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