Fire at Yairipok
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 06 2015 :
Properties worth lakhs of rupees have been reduced to cinders in a fire that broke out in a house at Yairipok Kekru Mathak Leikai under police station in Thoubal district at around 6 pm today, reports our Thoubal Correspondent.
The owner of the house has been identified as Keisham (o) Memcha (54) .
Electric short circuit is suspected to be the cause of the fire.
Nobody was there in the house when the incident happened.
Memcha's daughter-in-law found their house being engulfed in flames when she returned home after picking up her daughter from tuition.
Most of the neighbours were also not present at their respective houses as they went out to attend the last rites of an elderly person of the locality.
Most portions of the house except a few rooms were reduced to cinders.