Eleven tea estate workers’ Layams (cluster homes) were gutted in a fire at Goodarvilai estate in Nettikkudy division under the Kanan Devan Hills Plantations (KDHP), near Munnar, in Idukki in the early hours of Monday.
According to residents, the fire broke out at 4.10 a.m. at a locked house at Pathinonnumury Layams, and the blaze soon spread to other houses. Saravanan, a resident, noticed fog inside the house and alerted others. All escaped narrowly.
