Nine left homeless after fire razes house

KUCHING: Nine members of a family were rendered homeless after their house at Jalan Temenggong Haji Gobel here was destroyed an early morning fire. A spokesperson from the Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) said firefighters from the Petra Jaya fire station were rushed to the scene following the 1.30am report. Upon arrival, they found the […]

Australia orders mass evacuation

SYDNEY: Australia ordered residents and tourists out of the path of raging bush fires yesterday as the country braced for a weekend heatwave expected to fan the deadly inferno. Catastrophic blazes ripped through the country’s south-east on New Year’s Eve, killing at least eight people and stranding holidaymakers. New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian […]