488 fire incidents reported at Koshi province in three months

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Kathmandu: Incidences of fire have escalated with the start of the dry season. Four hundred and eighty-eight fire incidents were reported in 14 districts of Koshi province in the last three months.

According to the Koshi Province Police Office, Superintendent of the Office Deepak Pokharel 12 people were killed and 24 others injured in the fire incidents in a period of three months from December 17, 2023 to March 21, 2024. He said the fire incidents have mostly occurred due to electric short circuits and when a fire lit in the kitchen and cow sheds go out of control.

Likewise, he stated that wildfires have also broken out in local forests, SP Pokharel warned of the bushfires sometimes spreading to human settlements if not doused in time.

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