With their thatched roofs, houses in remote settlements of Karnali at risk of fire hazard

There is a campaign underway to replace the thatched roofs with galvanised zinc sheets but with lack of sufficient budget the effort is moving at a snail’s pace, local representatives say.

On Saturday, a fire that started from the house of Biura BK, 34, at Ranchuli in Tilgufa Municipality Ward No. 4 destroyed 13 houses in the settlement. Villagers and the police managed to douse the fire only in two houses.