Kota Kinabalu police chief Kasim Muda today denied allegations in a video that went viral on social media that the authorities set fire to a slum house next to the Kampung Kalansanan Inanam water village in Kota Kinabalu today.

He said the incident that razed 26 squatter houses was believed to be caused by a short circuit in one of the houses before the fire spread to other illegal housing structures.

Kasim said the short circuit...