Massive Fire Destroys 1,000 Homes in Malaysian Coastal Village
A massive fire swept through a coastal village in Sabah, Malaysia, destroying approximately 1,000 stilt homes and displacing thousands of residents. Drone footage captured the extensive damage caused by the blaze.
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Fire destroys 1,000 ‘stilt’ homes in Malaysia’s Sabah, displacing thousands
Blaze struck a ‘water village’ that is home to some of Malaysia’s poorest residents A huge fire destroyed about 1,000 makeshift homes, many of them built on stilts over water, and displaced thousands of people in a coastal village in Malaysia’s Sabah state on Sunday, authorities said. The blaze broke out early on Sunday morning in a “water village” in Sandakan district in Sabah’s northeast, where some of Malaysia’s poorest residents, including indigenous and stateless communities, live in clo...
By Agence France-Presse
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