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Thirty-five residents were made homeless in an early dawn fire that burned seven houses in Kampung Bintawa Hulu on Saturday.

Five houses gutted in dawn fire rendering 35 homeless

KUCHING: Five of seven houses in Kampung Bintawa Hulu, were gutted in an early dawn fire on Saturday (Nov 14).

The State Fire Department’s operations centre said that an emergency call on the incident was received around 1.47am and firefighters from Petra Jaya, Padungan and Tabuan Jaya fire stations were immediately despatched to the scene.

Upon arrival, they found that seven houses were burning, five were completely destroyed while two houses suffered 15 percent damages.

It was reported that a total of 35 residents were affected by the morning inferno.

In addition to the houses, seven motorcycles and three cars were also engulfed in the fire.

Firefighters managed to put out the blaze at 5.12am and no casualties were reported in the incident.

The cause of the fire and the losses incurred are yet to be ascertained.

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