Mahottari fire victims: Fukka Chiura, pregnant woman in Tripal

Khatun's husband Nuhan, who came home when she gave birth, returned to India to earn money 4 days ago. Her meeting is not complete when she eats dry chiura with a child in her arms who needs to rest. "Fate has ended everything," she said, "The life is melting, there is nothing to eat, nothing to stay, not even a place for the child to sleep."

Matihani-6 Around 500 poor families have become homeless after 110 houses of two villages were destroyed by the fire that broke out in Jarhalwagachi on Wednesday. After the fire destroyed their house and clothes along with their wealth, they were devastated.

Amina Khatun of the settlement, who earns her living by selling bay leaves, was digging through the ruins of her burnt house on Thursday hoping to find something. "I can't believe that everything was burnt," she said, "but I have nothing."

She is under stress after her Tejpata business registration certificate and 25,000 cash were burnt along with the house. "The properties of Sakina's family have been burnt, now they are worried about how to save the children," she said. There is no food, no roof. We have been eating chiura.'

The municipality provided 2 bottles of water, a tripal, 2 kilos of chiura and 2 kilos of wheat flour to all the victim families on Wednesday evening. Apart from this, they are in trouble as they have not received anything else till Thursday evening. "They gave us cooking supplies, the victim has neither cooking utensils nor money to buy," said the victim Akhlima Khatun, showing a tripal full of mud and ashes blown away by the hot wind that blew with the scorching heat in the slum on Thursday afternoon, "I spent the night with my children in this tripal."

The house of a poor family was burnt down after the fire that started from Mian tol of the settlement spread to the village. The victims said that nothing could be saved other than the fire that broke out in the village during the afternoon when they went to work and destroyed their house.

Pregnant women, children and the elderly in the slums have had more problems after the slums burned down. The local Edo Khatun said that there are problems with bedding, utensils and toilets. The victims are hanging tarpaulins next to the burnt debris. In hot summer, it is becoming uncomfortable to live in the neighborhood due to the dust from burning slums. Mayor Hari Prasad Mandal said that although they tried to take them to an open place around some of them, most of them refused to go, so they were hanging a tarpaulin next to them.

District Disaster Management Committee meeting held on Thursday decided to give Rs 20,000 per family to the victims, Chief District Officer Shivram Gelal said. He said that it was decided to document the relief in the district administration first to distribute the relief from other places through a one-door system.

Initial estimates are that 462 people from 110 families were affected by the fire. Gelal said that the district administration will provide relief after the municipality, the police and the Red Cross submit the exact details of the damage and the affected.

Municipality has provided the first phase of relief immediately and many other organizations have shown readiness to help, so an environment will be created to give soon, said the Municipal Council. He said that the Nepalese army has arranged to feed the victims on Thursday.