Families homeless after blaze


Fiery end: The fire raging the squatter settlement in Kampung Malaysia leaving 26 homeless.

KUALA LUMPUR: Twenty-six people were left homeless after a fire razed a squatter settlement housing four families in Kampung Malaysia here.

Cheras police chief Asst Comm Chong Kok Sin said no fatality was reported in the 11pm incident on Friday and an eyewitness claimed the blaze began from an air-conditioner in one of the rooms.

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