Kathmandu, March 21: Goods and property worth Rs 295,000 was gutted in a fire at the house of Kisan Shrestha in Chainpur-2, Sankhuwasabha district, it is learnt from the Central Police Newsroom here.

The fire at his house on Friday reportedly started from a burning incense stick left unattended at his shop.

Meanwhile, a report from Arghakhanchi said that goods and property worth Rs 1,265,000 was destroyed when a fire gutted the shop owned by Tara Prasad Basyal in Sandhikharka-5.

Likewise in Mahottari, fire that broke out at Ramgopalpur VDC Ward No. 1 in the northern part of Mahottari district damaged property worth about Rs 1,215,000 including nine houses.

Six goats also perished in the fire and foodgrain, gold and silver were also lost.

The fire broke out when a five-year-old daughter of local resident Ramkrit Thakur was playing with a burning wick-lamp, it is learnt.

Meanwhile in Ramechhap, families displaced by a fire that occured in Bhalubajor VDC Ward No. l  Kunauri recently have yet to receive any relief.

The fire last month gutted six houses, and those affected have been coming to the district headquarters for succour. But the district Red Cross has nothing to give them.

Those rendered homeless are living on the street and local people have given them some grain.