Residential house of poverty-stricken family gutted in fire incident

Budgam, Nov 15, KNT: A residential house was gutted in a fire incident at the Shunglipora Khag area of Central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Wednesday.

The house belonged to Muhammad Abdullah Sheikh.

Locals told the news agency Kashmir News Trust that two adjacent houses were partially damaged in the inferno.

They appealed to Deputy Commissioner Budgam to extend financial help to the affected family which according to them are in dire straits and hardly make their ends meet. [KNT]