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Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 28 2009:
A double storeyed residential house and its connected rented rooms in Wangkhei Ningthem Pukhri Mapal have been gutted destroying properties worth lakhs of rupees in a devastating fire that broke out in the forenoon today.
According to information received from the Fire Services, he fire broke out in the house belonging to one RK Sachi (48) of Wangkhei Ningthem Pukhri Mapal Pebam Leirak at around 11 am today.
Ruling the possible of fire igniting from a faulty electric short circuit, the source said that the fire was suspected to have been broke out from the kitchen of the house.
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When the LPG cylinders kept inside the kitchen exploded, the fury of the fire increased with the leaping flames spreading to other rooms which are rented out, the source said, adding that with exception to two kids, Sachi and his other family members were not present in the house at the time of the incident.
There is no report of any human casualty in the fire.
Information culled from the site of the incident said not long after the fire broke out, sound of explosion probably that of LPG gas cylinders were heard twice.
Originally from Wangjing, Sachi and his family members have come to settle at the present house some 3-4 years back.
Sachi runs a battery/dynamo repairing workshop at Andro Parking but he is currently undergoing treatment at Imphal Hospital from a personal illness.
Apart from the double-storeyed building and nine rooms rented out to tenants, Rs 15 lakhs in cash, utensils worth Rs 15 lakhs and auto/motor parts worth Rs 20 lakhs have been destroyed in the fire, according to family members.
However, the officials of the Fire Services are yet to work the exact loss in the fire.
Timely action of the fire service personnel and use of fire tenders managed to put off the fire before it spread to neighbouring houses in the locality.
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