A fire in a village in the central Blue Nile region killed four people and left more than 500 families homeless, the state-run Sudan News Agency said Sunday. A woman and three children were killed when the fire raged through Bott, a village of 2,500 people, the report said. The blaze destroyed the families' homes, burned the local market and killed scores of domestic animals, the news agency said. It did not say when the fire broke out or how it started.
