Huge loss: Three shops reduced to ashes

SUKKUR: A departmental store consisting of three shops was reduced to ashes when a fire broke out in Shahi Bazaar, Mirpur Mathelo on Thursday. The shops belonged to two brothers, Jagdesh Kumar and Shankar Lal. The owners of the shops said that they had lost goods worth Rs7 million while the people of the area said that the blaze was caused by a short-circuit.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 25^th, 2012.