Fire Began As They Ate Dinner: Uttarakhand Man Recalls Night He Lost Home
All India
Updated: May 1, 2016
The fire came down from the hill, raging, uncontrollable, spreading over the ground littered with dry leaves and pine cones. The animals started running helter-skelter, houses turned into burning torches, lighting up the night. At Tirchakheet, one of the villages worst hit by the ongoing forest fire in Uttarakhand, 45-year-old Shankar has barely got over the shock.
Read more