Fourteen houses burnt to a cinder by forest fire

Over 35 houses and sheds were burnt to ashes in Tehrathum in the past month, police say.

Forty-six-year-old Ranamaya Tamang on Monday was seen trying to salvage her belongings from her gutted house in Sungnam settlement of Laligurans Municipality-6. Two of her sons sat under the flimsy hut set up in a field nearby watching the smouldering debris of their house.