Fire destroys 1,000 ‘stilt’ homes in Malaysia’s Sabah, displacing thousands
Blaze struck a ‘water village’ that is home to some of Malaysia’s poorest residents
A huge fire destroyed about 1,000 makeshift homes, many of them built on stilts over water, and displaced thousands of people in a coastal village in Malaysia’s Sabah state on Sunday, authorities said.
The blaze broke out early on Sunday morning in a “water village” in Sandakan district in Sabah’s northeast, where some of https://www.theguardian.com/world/malaysia">Malaysia’s poorest residents, including indigenous and stateless communities, live in closely packed, wooden stilt houses.
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