Family of 11 living in cramped dilapidated hut for years since losing house in fire

(from 3rd left) Eyam, Michael and the family outside the destroyed house in Pitas.

KOTA KINABALU: A family of 11 has been living in a cramped dilapidated hut over the past few years after a fire razed their house in rural Pitas in 2016.

The elders in the family, a blind couple, and their five children, as well as four grandchildren, had to make do with the situation while waiting for assistance from the government to rebuild their house at Kg Pias, Kanibongan Pitas.