KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
At least three shops were destroyed in a major blaze in Fruit Mani Parimpora in Srinagar on Monday.
Initial reports suggest that the shops belong house offices of Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) and belong to Horticulture department and the incident happened when horticulture officers were about to hold a meet with traders in the Fruit Mandi.
“The meeting could not take place when the incident happened,” sources said.
They said that blaze has destroyed all the records which were in the three shops of the building. “The data included that of import and export, revenue and other things.”
“There is only one file in the name of records,” the sources added.
“It is a mystery as how it happened,” an official said.
“Only three people including two ladies were present in the office when the flames came out of the shops,” informed sources said.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
Police confirmed the incident and said all the officers are the spot.
Meanwhile, unidentified persons hurled a petrol bomb at a vendor in Sopore causing burn injuries to him.
Reports said that a fruit vendor was busy in his business near Guro Nursing Home in the north town when he was attacked with a petrol bomb apparently for defying shutdown call. He was rushed to hospital.
