Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 10 2008:
The building of a Nursing Institute located at Bishnupur Ward No.1 in Bishnupur district has been gutted in a devastating fire which broke out in the morning today damaging properties worth around Rs 10 lakhs.
There is no report of any human casualty in the fire.
According to information received from the fire sub-station of the district, the fire broke out at around 10.30 am and all the properties of the institute including medical equipments have been destroyed in the fire beyond redemption.
After battling for almost three hours, the raging fire was finally extinguished at around 1.30 pm.
Additional firemen and equipments from Moirang sub-station and Imphal have to be called in dousing the fire.
How the fire started ignited is yet to be ascertained.