A fire broke out from a gas cylinder at Old Jaigarh Bazar in Achham on Tuesday around 7 pm. 23 houses and 35 shops run in those houses were completely burnt down.

This market is also the center of Bannigarhi Jaigarh Rural Municipality. The fire started from the IME center run by local businessman Pushparaj Sharma. Apart from the physical infrastructure, it is estimated that there was a loss of 80 million worth of property, said Tek Bahadur Saud, chairman of the rural municipality. The fire was brought under control with the help of Mangalsen municipality's fire department, army, police and locals.

Nirmala Rawal's concrete house in Beech Bazaar of Jaigarh was demolished with dozers and the fire was prevented from spreading to other areas. She said that the house was demolished by a dozer when it caught fire. The house that the husband bought after suffering was destroyed in an instant. My husband died of a heart attack 10 years ago,' she said. There is no house to live in. Even the goods inside the house could not be saved.

Sonam Rawal, who is running three separate businesses of liquor, grocery and fancy in Jaigarh market, has also lost all her belongings including her house. "Everything was destroyed. It felt like getting up. We were educating our children on the trust of business. We had to come and live on the street since yesterday," she said. "We have been doing business for 22 years. 22 years of hard earned money is all gone. Not even a single piece of clothing was spared. Husband is sick. 10,000 per month should be bought. There is no way out.

33-year-old Bhupendra Rawal, who runs a fancy shop in Jaigarh, was also destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening. For 10 years, he operated a business with the earnings he earned in different cities of India. Rawal, who started the business with a loan of 2 lakhs, had become worth around 50 lakhs. The local market is dominated by people from India. Many people from India also went shopping on Chaite Dasain. At that time I had saved 500,000 baht. Banks do not accept Indian Rupees. I used to exchange it with Nepalese rupees for those going to India. That also turned into ashes," he said.

Radhika Rawal, who is running a fancy shop, has also burnt down her shop along with her house. She has been doing business in Jaigarh for 10 years and her house including 10 tolas of gold, cash and all the goods of her shop has been burnt down. As the new year and summer season started, goods worth 6.5 lakhs arrived in the morning alone. In the evening, everything was burnt to ashes before we could arrange the goods that had arrived,'' he said, "All the goods were burnt to ashes at once. Sleep, hunger all robbed. What to do now, where to go. '