Fire reduces 11 houses, 4 sheds to ashes at Tikalipur, Banke

By Siraj Khan, Nepalgunj, Apr. 15: Eleven houses and four cow sheds have been reduced to ashes due to an inferno at Tikalipur village of Raptisonari Rural Municipality in Banke district.

According to the Area Police Office in Kohalpur, the fire broke out from the house of a local, Sitaram Jaisi, in the afternoon today and then spread onto the other houses.

Ein Bahadur Malla, Deputy Inspector of Police (DSP) and chief at the Area Police Office in Kohalpur, said that the fire caught many houses as it was a time of windy weather and that there was no fire engine at Raptisonari.

By the time the fire engines from Kohalpur and Nepalgunj reached the village, 11 houses and four sheds were already damaged.

Raptisonari Rural Municipality has offered a help of 150 thousand rupees to each of the victim family of the fire to build the houses. The victims would also be provided with food and clothing.

Just a week ago, 16 houses at Narainapur in the district were damaged when a fire broke out there.