A fire Friday gutted more than 200 houses of Mahlaiyaniya village in Saptari, police said. The fire started from a threshing machine, locals said. Exact details of damage were not available from the remote village because without a road fire fighters could not reach the disaster site.

A devastating fire at Bhelichapena in the same district this month left behind more than Rs.30 million of devastation in the worst fire so far this summer. The fire gutted more than 1,500 homes and affected 2,117 families. nepalnews.com br April 12