Short circuit: Three houses gutted

HAFIZABAD: Household effects worth hundreds of thousands of rupees were burned in a fire that spread to three houses on Sunday night. Rescue officials said the fire started at Rafiq Ansari’s house in Pir Kalay Shah Colony due to an electric short circuit. It spread to the two adjacent houses and was put out in three hours. No one was injured.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12^th, 2013.