Handwara: A residential house was gutted in a fire incident in Dedikote village of Villgam Handwara on Sunday night.
Local people said that fire broke out in the double story house of a local Tariq Ahmad Khan son of Mohammad Maqbool Khan of Dedikote Bala and gutted completely before fire tenders reached the spot. They said that soon after the incident, local people started the rescue and shifted the family to a safer place and also called fire service Vilgam who reached the spot and doused the flames, the timely efforts of fire service with the help of locals and the other nearby house were saved. The people appealed to the administration to compensate the victim’s family.
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