Nearly 90% of Pasir Putih market razed in early morning fire

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A fire destroyed about 90% of the Pasir Putih wet market in Ipoh early Tuesday (Feb 13) morning.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/aIR38  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 About 90% of the Pasir Putih wet market in Ipoh was raised in a fire on Tuesday morning.

00:08 During the incident that happened just past midnight, the market was up in flames by the

00:13 time the fire and rescue department personnel arrived at the scene.

00:16 A total of nine fire engines with some 60 personnel was deployed to the scene.

00:22 Ipoh Timor MP Howard Lee said when he reached there with another assemblyman and councillor

00:27 at 12.35am, about 80% of the market were already destroyed.

00:33 He said the personnel took about two hours to put out the fire.

00:37 He said many of the 60 traders of the market had restocked items for the Chinese New Year

00:41 period.

00:43 He said they will gather information from the local authority to help out the affected

00:47 traders.

00:47 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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