Major forest fires across Rajouri district
Tribune News Service

Rajouri, May 2
Major forest fires are raging in forests across Rajouri district even as a Bakkarwal survived unhurt as his house was fully gutted in a fire in Nowshera forests here this afternoon. There were also reports of a forest fire in the Keeri sector near the LoC.

A fire rages in the Kalidhar forest near Sunderbani. Tribune Photo: Shariq Majeed.

Local sources told The Tribune that fire had gutted a large forest area across the district. In Sunderbani, fires occurred in Kalidhar, Bindi and Larya forests, whereas in Kalakote tehsil, fire raged in Nathiani, Kanglar, Moghla and Treru forests.

The sources further said in Nowshera tehsil, house of Muhamad, a Bakkarwal, was damaged in a fire though he survived unhurt. In the Nowshera area, fires damaged forest cover in Manpur, Bhawani, Ser Makri and Ghai areas.

The sources said forest fire was also raging near the Bharat Ghala

forward post in the Keeri sector of the LoC. They added that the fire had broken out across the LoC and travelled to this side. The Army was making all efforts to control the fire, they added.