Malé warehouse fire in numbers
26 buildings were evacuated in the densely-packed residential neighbourhood.
01 Oct 2019, 9:00 AM
On the night of September 20, a raging inferno blazed through a residential area of the densely-packed capital, causing the death of a 46-year-old woman and displacing more than 700 people. The fire broke out inside a chemical storage warehouse in the Henveiru ward of Malé. The cause and the cost remain unclear but the National Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday released details about the affected households.
Seven residential buildings caught fire on the Abadhah Fehi Magu, a narrow road with a pavement on one side and rows of parked motorbikes and cars. Five other buildings were also damaged.
Two buildings, the Nigaaran and Neighbour houses, were razed to the ground. Military engineers dismantled a metal structure that was on the verge of collapse.
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