MUGU, Sept 23: A fire broke out in Gamgadhi Bazaar, the headquarters of Mugu district, last night. The fire started at the locality north of the Kalika Malika Temple in the town. Eight houses were reduced to ashes in the fire incident, police said.
Nepal Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force personnel, the Municipal Police personnel and the local people joined hands and doused the fire.
Fire guts 21 houses in Mugu, no human casualties reported
Deputy Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Birendra Thapa, said the fire had broken out from a wooden house and spread in adjoining houses. The houses of Tarke Lama, Sonam Lama, Janga Aidi, Santona Khttri, Pancha Sejuwal, PR Malla, Pradip Rawal and Putali Shahi have been destroyed in the inferno, according to DSP Thapa.
Security personnel had doused the fire using water from the water supply pipes supplied to Gamgadhi Bazaar. Nineteen houses were destroyed in a fire that occurred at Tallo Bazaar of Gamgadhi on November 15, 2021.
(RSS)
