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Fire destroys 1,000 ‘stilt’ homes in Malaysia’s Sabah, displacing thousands

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Fire destroys 1,000 ‘stilt’ homes in Malaysia’s Sabah, displacing thousands
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Blaze struck a ‘water village’ that is home to some of Malaysia’s poorest residentsA huge fire destroyed about 1,000 makeshift homes, many of them built on stilts over water, and displaced thousands of people in a coastal village in Malaysia’s Sabah state on Sunday, authorities said.The blaze broke out early on Sunday morning in a “water village” in Sandakan district in Sabah’s northeast, where some of Malaysia’s poorest residents, including indigenous and stateless communities, live in closely

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