{"id":48393,"date":"2026-04-20T00:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48393"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:04:28","slug":"fire-destroys-1000-homes-in-malaysias-sabah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48393","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys 1,000 homes in Malaysia&#8217;s Sabah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thousands of people have been displaced after a fire destroyed around 1,000 homes ?in a coastal village in Malaysia&#8217;s Sabah state on Borneo island on Sunday, the fire department said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were notified of the fire in Sandakan district at around 1.32 a.m. (1732 GMT), the district&#8217;s fire and rescue chief Jimmy Lagung said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out in one of Sabah&#8217;s water villages, which feature wooden houses built on ?stilts and are home to some of the country&#8217;s poorest communities, including many stateless and indigenous groups.<\/p>\n<p>Over 9,000 residents have been affected by the fire though no deaths have been reported, Sandakan police said, according to state news agency Bernama.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia&#8217;s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the federal government was coordinating with Sabah authorities to provide basic assistance and temporary relocation for those affected.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia&#8217;s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the federal government was coordinating with Sabah authorities to provide basic assistance and temporary relocation for those affected. &#8220;The priority now is the safety of the victims and immediate assistance on the ground,&#8221; he said in a Facebook post.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have been displaced after a fire destroyed around 1,000 homes ?in a coastal village in Malaysia&#8217;s Sabah state on Borneo island on Sunday, the fire department said. Authorities were notified of the fire in Sandakan district at around 1.32 a.m. (1732 GMT), the district&#8217;s fire and rescue chief Jimmy Lagung said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}