Red Sijago went berserk, three houses behind the Simpang Empat Market, Jorong Simpang Empat, Nagari Lingkuang Aua, West Pasaman District, West Sumatra were burned out on Saturday (03/09/19) at around 16.20 WIB.
One community member at the scene of the incident told MinangkabauNews.com that a fire was allegedly caused by a gas cylinder explosion from the house of one of the victims.
"The fire is thought to have originated from the kitchen of Dali's house. I could hear the explosion," he said.
He said, there were three houses that were burned down, namely Dali's house, Minah's house and Ainil mardiah's house.
A new fire could be extinguished 30 minutes later, after a fire engine and the West Pasaman AWP police car drove to the location and made a blackout.
Meanwhile, the Pasaman police chief, AKP Dedy Adriansyah, SIK said, for the temporary data there were three sold out houses and one victim was hit