Fire razes almost entire Sarpang town

Prime Minister to personally expedite new town plan  Disaster: In less than an hour, 81 shops in Sarpang town were razed to the ground by a fire on February 15. The remaining 51 shops escaped the inferno because a parking space separated them from the row of shops that caught fire. Most of the shopkeepers […]

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