Inventory of over a 100 shops were reduced to ashes at a fire that blazed through Lunda Bazaar in Gujrat. PHOTO: EXPRESS
More than 100 shops at the Lunda Bazaar in Lala Musa burned down after a shop selling second-hand clothes caught fire at around 4:30am on Monday morning.
Rescue-1122 teams and a fire brigade arrived at the scene and put out the fire, however, inventory of more than a hundred shops selling second-hand clothes were reduced to ashes. Police said the shopkeepers had estimated the losses at Rs10 million. City SHO Sanaullah said that the fire had erupted because of a short circuit.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 24th, 2015.
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