Nearly 40 houses and shops were destroyed and about 100 people left homeless when a fire ripped through the central Shan State ruby mining town of Monghsu on Wednesday morning.
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A fire in Irrawaddy division’s Henzada town on Wednesday has killed one person and destroyed five houses.
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Burma’s president appoints Duchira Dan investigation commission, but only to address the disappearance of police sergeant and the fire which razed 20 Rohingya homes.
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Shwe Maung is reprimanded in Naypyidaw for his comments about alleged police involvement in the 28 January fire in Duchira Dan. However, the Rohingya MP for Buthidaung says he was only repeating what his constituents had told him.
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Shwe Maung, a Rohingya MP representing Buthidaung constituency, says local Maungdaw police were involved in the fire that razed at least 16 homes in Duchira Dan, but the Arakan State government and police suggest the residents set the fire themselves.
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A fire razed a number of Muslim Rohingya houses in the west side of Duchira Dan village in Muangdaw Township on Tuesday night, though no casualties have been reported.
More than 200 homes and businesses were destroyed in a blaze that devastated the village of Katbat in the Irrawaddy delta on Monday morning, leaving about 1,100 people homeless.
About 120 wooden houses were destroyed and 40 other disassembled on Friday in a blaze that devastated the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand. Two persons were injured, one of whom has severe burns.
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Thirty-four wooden houses were burned down when an accidental fire ravaged a Rohingya refugee camp in Pauktaw township, Arakan State, on Thursday. No one was reported injured.
Feb 12, 2009 (DVB), More than 1000 people who were left homeless by a fire in Mandalay which destroyed over 300 homes on Monday are in urgent need of blankets[…]
Feb 11, 2009 (DVB), More than 300 homes were destroyed and more than 1600 people left homeless when a fire broke out in Chanmyatharzi township, Mandalay division, on the afternoon[…]
Dec 11, 2008 (DVB), A man and a woman were killed last night when a fire broke out at midnight last night in a six-storey building in Tamwe township in[…]
Dec 10, 2008 (DVB), Stallholders from Moulmein’s lower market which burnt down recently are struggling to agree with local authorities on a temporary location where they can continue to trade.[…]
Dec 2, 2008 (DVB), A fire at a market in the Mon state capital Moulmein on Monday destroyed all the stalls in the complex, with damage totaling an estimated one[…]
Sep 11, 2008 (DVB), Around 100 local monks rushed to the scene of a fire raging at Myoma market in Twante in Rangoon division on Tuesday night, but were forbidden[…]
Apr 1, 2008 (DVB), A fire which broke out on Saturday evening near High School 13 between 81st and 82nd streets in Mandalay devastated about 19 houses, Mandalay residents said.[…]
Mar 25, 2008 (DVB), Ko Thaw Zin Naing, who set himself on fire as a protest, has been transferred to Rangoon general hospital's burns unit and is being watched by[…]
Mar 24, 2008 (DVB), A solo demonstrator was hospitalised after setting fire to himself at Rangoon's historic Shwe Dagon pagoda in a protest against economic hardship, witnesses said. According to[…]
Mar 24, 2008 (DVB), Two civilians and a monk were arrested in Rangoon on Friday for criticising the performance of the fire brigade during a blaze in Lanmadaw township, bystanders[…]
Mar 19, 2008 (DVB), Burmese military troops set fire to an island in the Thaung Yin river between Burma and Thailand yesterday, clearing huts built by illegal settlers, locals said.[…]
Feb 28, 2008 (DVB), Residents of South Dagon township, Rangoon, are worried that a fire at a local rubbish dump could spread or ignite a gas explosion in an underground[…]
Feb 27, 2008 (DVB), Thousands of people from across Burma have been left homeless after fires in Kengtung, Bogalay, Palaw, Rangoon and Mandalay over the past few days caused devastation.[…]
Feb 26, 2008 (DVB), A fire raged for two hours yesterday morning in Hlaing Tharyar on the outskirts of Rangoon, destroying around 100 houses, local residents said. An eyewitness told[…]
Feb 26, 2008 (DVB), Firefighters struggled to control a fire which broke out at Yadanabon market in Mandalay yesterday, leaving a shopping mall, information technology park and private businesses devastated.[…]
