Relief effort launched as Indian village burns down

A huge fire destroyed a remote mountainous village in the Indian portion of Kashmir, devastating all the 160 wooden homes and injuring nearly 100 people, an official said today.

Police believe that bonfires used by local residents to keep themselves warm in chilly weather caused the devastation on Monday night in Margi, a village 155 miles north of Jammu, the winter capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state.