တန္မင္းဆက္ တည္ခဲ့တဲ့ ေရွးေဟာင္းၿမိဳ႕ မီးေလာင္

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တရုုတ္အေနာက္ေတာင္ပိုုင္း တိဘက္ေရွးေဟာင္းၿမိဳ႕မွာ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၁၁ ရက္က မီးေလာင္ခဲ့လိုု႔ မီးသတ္သမားေတြ ႀကိဳးစား ၿငိမ္းသတ္ခဲ့ရတယ္လိုု႔ အစိုုးရမီဒီယာက အစီရင္ခံပါတယ္။
က်ံဳးတ်န္႔လိုု႔ လူသိမ်ားတဲ့ ရွန္ဂရီလာ ၿမိဳ႕ႀကီးရဲ႕ ဒူခေဇာင္ ေဒသအလယ္က သစ္သားအိမ္ေတြ ေလာင္ကၽြမ္းခဲ့တာပါ။

အိမ္ေျခ တရာေက်ာ္ ေလာင္ကၽြမ္းခဲ့လိုု႔ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁၆.၅ သန္းဖိုုး ပ်က္စီးဆံုုးရံႈးခဲ့တယ္လိုု႔ ေဒသခံ အာဏာပိုုင္ေတြက ခန္႕မွန္းပါတယ္။ ေျခာက္ေသြ႕တဲ့ ရာသီဥတုုေၾကာင့္ မီးက ျမန္ျမန္ ကူးခဲ့တာလိုု႔ ဆင္ဟြာသတင္းဌာနက အစီရင္ခံပါတယ္။
လူ ၁ ေထာင္ေက်ာ္က မီးေလာင္ျပင္နားက အေဆာက္အဦေတြရဲ႕ အမိုုးေတြကိုု ဆြဲခ်ရင္း ေရသတ္ပိုုက္ေတြသံုုးၿပီး ၿငိမ္းသတ္ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ အေသအေပ်ာက္ အစီရင္ခံမႈ မရွိဘဲ အာဏာပိုုင္ေတြက လူေတြကိုု ေဘးလြတ္ရာ ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းေပးထားခဲ့တယ္လိုု႔ ဆင္ဟြာက ေရးပါတယ္။
မနက္ခင္း အေစာႀကီးက ေလာင္ခဲ့တဲ့ မီးဟာ မြန္းလြဲပိုုင္းေလာက္မွာ ၿငိမ္းသြားတယ္လိုု႔ စီစီတီဗီ သတင္းဌာနက အစီရင္ခံပါတယ္။
ဒူခေဇာင္ၿမိဳ႕ကိုု တန္မင္းဆက္ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ႏွစ္တေထာင္ေက်ာ္က စတည္ခဲ့တာလိုု႔ ဆင္ဟြာက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ပင္လယ္ေရျပင္အထက္ မီတာ ၃ ေထာင္ေလာက္ျမင့္တဲ့ ကုုန္းျပင္ျမင့္ေပၚက ေတာင္ေပၚ႐ႈခင္းေၾကာင့္ ကမၻာလွည့္ခရီးသြားေတြန႕ဲ ေက်ာ္ၾကားလာလိုု ႔ဒီၿမိဳ႕ကိုု ရွန္ဂရီလာလိုု႔ လတ္တေလာႏွစ္ေတြကမွ တရား၀င္ နာမည္မွည့္ေခၚခဲ့တာပါ။ မီးေလာင္ရတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းရင္းကိုုေတာ့ မသိရေသးပါဘူး။

Dukezong, Ancient Tibetan Town In Southwest China, Destroyed By Fire

By DIDI TANG
BEIJING (AP) — A fire that raged for nearly 10 hours Saturday razed an ancient Tibetan town in southwest China that's popular with tourists, burning down hundreds of buildings as fire engines were unable to get onto the narrow streets, state media and witnesses said.
There was no immediate report of any casualties, and the cause of the fire was not yet known. State media, citing local authorities, said the blaze started in a guesthouse and was ruled accidental.
The fire broke out at about 1:30 a.m. in the ancient Tibetan quarter of Dukezong, which dates back more than 1,000 years and is known for its preserved cobbled streets, ancient structures and Tibetan culture. Dukezong is part of scenic Shangri-La county in Deqen prefecture.
Once called Gyaitang Zong, the county renamed itself Shangri-La in 2001, hoping to draw tourists by the reference to the mythical Himalayan land described in James Hilton's 1933 novel. Like hundreds of Chinese cities and counties, Shangri-La renovated its old neighborhood, Dukezong, turning it into a tourist attraction filled with shops and guesthouses.
Photos and video footage showed Dukezong and its labyrinth of houses engulfed in flames that turned the night sky red.
The fire destroyed about 242 houses and shops in Dukezong, dislocated more than 2,600 people, and torched many historic artifacts, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
He Yu, a resident, said she woke to loud, explosion-like sounds to find the old town on fire.
"The fire was huge," she said. "The wind was blowing hard, and the air was dry. I was scared because my home is a little distance away from the ancient town. It kept burning, and the firefighters were there, but there was little they could do because they could not get the fire engines onto the old town's narrow streets."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/11/dukezong-fire-tibet_n_4580829.html