The Uma Bakung longhouse in central Sarawak on fire yesterday.
MIRI: The resettlement longhouses in Bakun in central Sarawak is in urgent need of upgrade as some of the facilities such as internal wiring and the building of firebreaks need to be done as soon as possible.
Bakun community elder Patrick Sawing said there have been at least four major fire-outbreaks in the Bakun longhouses since the dam project was started in 1996.
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