Fire at cloth shops guts stock worth millions in Sargodha
Two shops of the market were gutted, however no casualty was reported.
SARGODHA (Dunya News) – Fire has turned to ashes millions of rupees worth of cloth at two shops in thickly populated Block-2 bazaar on Tuesday.
An apparent reason behind the incident has been reported to be sparking caused due to jumbled up elecrticity wires dangling low over heads in the wake of an anti encroachment operation in bazaar the previous day. Besides, the electricity meters of the extensions fixed to walls of these shops also are said to trigger the sparking ending up in torching cloth causing huge monetary loss. However, no casualty has been reported.
Fire-fighter and Rescue 1122 teams have reached the spot and efforts are on to control the blaze till filing of this report at the moment.
