NAWABSHAH: 200 huts gutted

Published April 7, 2013

NAWABSHAH, April 6: At least 200 huts were gutted when fire broke out in the Haji Lal Mohammad Brohi village near Jam Sahab on Wednesday. Wheat bags and other valuable items were reduced to ashes and more than 25 buffaloes and goats were killed in the fire caused by short-circuit in a transformer. The fire could not be extinguished till the filing of this report. A fire brigade has reached the spot to extinguish the fire.

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