
No Home, No Living: Nigeen Houseboat Fire Victim Stares At Bleak Future
‘Many People Came But No One Helps’
More than a week after the devastating fire reduced his houseboat to ashes in Nigeen Lake, Raj Mohammad stares at a bleak future. In total, seven houseboats were gutted in the devastating blaze on April 4. One of the owners Raj Mohammad and his wife have been completely left homeless with no other property to bank on for shelter or survival for them.
“I am completely ruined. I had a houseboat named Flora. I along with my wife used to live in the pantry of the houseboat while I would let out other rooms to tourists for brief stay to eke out living,” he says.
Raj Mohammad says that he had high hopes for a bumper season this year but the devastating fire left “me homeless and out of work with no means for survival.”
“The fire started from one ho...