Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 27, 2010:
A fire razed through a girls' hostel and a coaching centre along with the house of the owner of the structures on Sega Road Konjeng Hajari Leikai tonight, at about 8.20 pm, reducing properties worth several lakhs of rupees into ashes.
No human casualty was reported in the incident but properties worth some lakhs of rupees belonging to the owner of the girls' hostel, Tongbram Motilal were turned into ashes before the fire service personnel put the fire under control.
In the burning incident, belongings of the house of Motila including TV, washing machine, fridge, inverter, beds, almirahs and others were totally burnt.
Preliminary calculation estimated the damage to the properties at about Rs 3 lakh.
Furniture of the hostel and coaching centre including books, clothes etc.
of the hostellers lodged at the hostel were also turned into cinders.
The fire was suspected to have been caused by electric short circuit.
Personnel of the Imphal fire service station who rushed to the spot immediately doused the fire with the assistance of the local people.