WB: Scores Of Shops Gutted In Fire At Salt Lake, One Injured

DN Bureau

Scores of shops, mostly temporary eateries along the line of footpath at Salt Lake , were gutted in a major fire early on Thursday. Read on for details:

Scores of shops gutted in fire at Salt Lake
Scores of shops gutted in fire at Salt Lake


Kolkata: Scores of shops, mostly temporary eateries along the line of footpath at Salt Lake , were gutted in a major fire early on Thursday, police and fire brigade sources said.

A shopkeeper received burn wounds following the bursting of a cooking gas cylinder in one of the destroyed shops and he was taken to the Bidhannagar hospital in the locality.

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However, the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, the rescue officials said.

More than half-a-dozen firefighting vehicles have rushed to the scene of fire, FD Block at the Salt Lake, to combat the flames as most of the shops were covered with

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State Fire Minister Sujit Bose and many senior officials have gone to the spot to review the situation and overseeing the rescue work. (with UNI inputs)










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