SAGAING DIVISION – A 10-year-old boy and his mother died in a fire at a house yesterday (April 11th) in the Myohla ward, Kalay city.
A house caught fire near the irrigation office around 9:00 p.m. “There is a family of four. Two of them escaped,” said a resident.
The father and son escaped unharmed, as did the four family members, while the mother and 10-year-old son died in the fire. The cause of the fire is not yet known.
Temperatures are rising these days and fire incidents are occurring frequently in some areas. In Chin State’s Mindat City, there was a fire yesterday afternoon, and residents said that 8 houses of residents who were displaced from their homes were burned.