Scores of Chinese families were left without a cover when flames destroyed over forty straw huts in Dien Doo Zah: village, a little south-east of Amherst Avenue and Keswick Read early yesterday afternoon.
The fire started at about 2.20 p.m. and the Bubbling Well Fire Brigade engines were immediately sent to the village where flames were raging.
The firemen met with difficulties in extinguishing the fire since the slight breeze and the ignitable material of the huts made it easy for the flames to spread, but the flames were finally extinguished by 4 p.m.
One of the Chinese female occupants was burned about the body and removed to the hospital, although her condition was not believed to be very serious
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