According to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Shyam Adhikari, Kaushila Nepali, 75, was killed in the fire. The fire also gutted 12 houses and nine cattle sheds. [break]“Some children had made fire, which suddenly caught the thatched roof of a house and spread throughout the village,” DSP Adhikari quoted locals as saying.
Nepali had died as she could not run to safety after her house caught fire. Police said the fire destroyed properties worth over Rs 8 million. All of the fire victims are Dalits. The fire victims are living in tents after the fire destroyed their houses.
District Administration Office, Parbat has said that the family of the deceased would be provided Rs 40,000 and other fire victims Rs 5,000 per household as immediate relief.
“The fire has caused a huge damage. We have requested the home ministry to provide relief package for the fire victims,” said Chief District Officer Tek Bahadur KC.
Nepal Red Cross Society distributed clothes, and utensils to the victims while Chambers of Commerce and Industries, Parbat provided pulse, rice and other food items to the fire victims. “Most of the fire victims are daily wage earners and they have been hit the hardest,” said chief of Parbat Red Cross Sundar Joshi.
Similarly, fire outbreak in Rautahat destroyed properties worth Rs 2 million on Thursday. The fire at Basbitti Jingadiya VDC-9 gutted three houses. The fire also destroyed Rs 600,000 in cash kept in the house of Sheikh Sufarun. Another fire outbreak at Samanpur VDC-3 destroyed at least three houses.
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