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UNSEEN FORCES

MYSTERY FIRES

hroughout April, the village of Choto Singia Munshipara in Thakurgaon, Bangladesh, was besieged by mysterious fires. Blazes with no obvious source suddenly broke out, destroying furniture, clothes, straw heaps, sacks of grain and sometimes whole rooms at seemingly random locations across the village, despite vigilance from the residents. Fire pumps were set up all round the village and most of the 80 households there kept pots of water within reach in case of a

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