PASIR MAS: Some 60 wooden houses at a religious school Pondok Al-Yusufiah in Gelang Mas here were destroyed in a fire earlier tonight.
Pasir Mas fire and rescue station officer-in-charged Mohamad Nazri Wahab said more than 30 firemen and two fire engines were deployed to the scene after receiving the stress call at 8.23pm.
No casualty was reported.
The fire had destroyed about half of the school by the time the firemen reached about five minutes later.
"The wooden houses were about 50 per cent destroyed when firemen arrived there about five minutes later. They took about two hours to control the fire," he said adding that the cause of the fire was not immediately known and they are investigating it.
It is learnt that more than 100 male students were performing the Isyak prayer when the incident happened.