An average of three homes are gutted nationwide daily. Fire and Rescue Department deputy director general Datuk Amer Yusof said up to July this year, 1,102 houses were destroyed by fire. He said most of them were terrace houses with 556 cases, flats (231), apartments (119), longhouses (100) and squatter homes (96). Investigations, he said,…
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Chong, 66, could only sob as he watched his 75-year-old home burn down, along with three unoccupied shops, in Jalan Metro Prima, Taman Kepong, at 12.45pm. He had spent his entire life in the single-storey shop that he had inherited from his father during the Japanese occupation. At the time of the fire, Chong was there with…
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12 August 2015 (The Star) GEORGE TOWN: Thinking that business will be good this Deepavali, S. Patmanathan has been stocking up on prayer paraphernalia since April. However, all his preparations went up in smoke on Monday night when his four shophouses – among the biggest oulets in Little India here – were razed, resulting in…
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