Office, quarters gutted in inferno
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 03 2016:
Office of the Association of Premier State College Seniors and a Chowkidar's quarters located inside DM College campus have been gutted by a raging fire that broke out at around 6 pm today.
It was suspected that the quarters located opposite to GP Women's College hostel was set ablaze by some miscreants.
According to Phanjoubam (O) Binodini w/o Chowkidar Phanjoubam Ingochouba of Andro who occupied the quarters, she and her husband were not at home when the fire broke out.
Yet, their children twice heard sound of something like stone falling on the roof of the house covered by GI sheets before the fire broke out.
Furniture items, books and other articles kept inside the office of the Association of Premier State College Seniors were completely reduced to ashes.
Likewise, most of the articles kept inside the Chowkidar's house including Rs 20,000 in cash were also reduced to cinders.
A single house served as the Chowkidar's quarters and the association's office.
The raging fire was brought under control before it could spread to other structures with the arrival of a team of Manipur Fire Services.