According to police inspector Pawan Kumar Bhattarai, the head at Metropolitan Police Sector Gaushala, the fire started at around 8:30 on Sunday morning and it took almost two hours to extinguish. After the fire was doused, police found a charred body inside the sattal. Police inspector Bhattarai said, "No one was aware about the presence of the elderly woman in the sattal because she would travel to different places most of the time."[break]
Police suspect the fire could have started while she was warming herself to stave off cold. People around the area said she was living in the sattal for the past 12-13 years.
At least five fire brigades, 70 security personnel and locals worked to douse the fire. Police said the sattal made up of mud and wood was also destroyed due to the water jets from the impulse guns of the fire engines.
The body has been sent to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) for post mortem. No one had claimed the body till Sunday evening.
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