Labuan refugee settlement fire leaves 261 homeless

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A total of 261 people from 42 families were left homeless after a fire at the Kampung Muslim refugee settlement on Labuan Island on Wednesday (Jan 1).   The fire, which broke out at about 10am, destroyed 39 wooden squatter houses in the refugee resettlement scheme.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2bnxh4uu  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A fire at the Kampong Muslim refugee settlement on Labuan Island left 261 people from 42 families

00:10homeless on Wednesday.

00:12The blaze, which began around 10 a.m., destroyed 39 wooden squatter houses in the refugee resettlement

00:18scheme.

00:19Labuan Fire and Rescue Department Director Abdul Rahman Ali said firefighters were dispatched

00:26at 10.47 a.m. after receiving a distress call.

00:30With support from the local community, the fire was brought under control in less than

00:34an hour.

00:36Abdul Rahman credited the swift response of firefighters for preventing the blaze from

00:41spreading to hundreds of other wooden houses in the settlement.

00:45No fatalities were reported, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

00:50National Security Council Director Mohammed Hafiz Dawood stated that emergency teams and

00:55local agencies, including the Social Welfare Department and the Federal Territory's Islamic

01:01Religious Council, are assisting the affected families.

01:04This is not the first fire to devastate the settlement.

01:07A 2009 blaze destroyed hundreds of homes.

01:11The settlement, consisting of 334 houses, is home to approximately 1,700 people.

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