KOTA KINABALU: A 17-year-old is believed to have torched his family home, causing a fire that destroyed some 400 houses at the Kampung Bangau Bangau seaside village early on Wednesday.
More than 2,500 people were made homeless when the fire swept through squatter settlement in the east coast Semporna district.
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