Fire guts seven houses

Fire guts seven houses

JAKARTA: Fire destroyed seven houses in Jl. Darma Putra,
Kampung Duku village, Kebayoran Lama Selatan subdistrict, close
to the Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) housing complex
late on Thursday. No fatalities were reported.

"No one could save anything from the burned houses," said
Koes, one of the residents.

He said that the fire was first seen from the house belonging
to a woman named Tata.

Firemen put out the fire about 30 minutes later.

Residents believed the fire started from the explosion of a
malfunctioning stove at Tata's house, but an official from the
South Jakarta fire agency blamed it on an electrical short
circuit. -- Antara