14 shops, seminary damaged in separate fire mishaps in Anantnag
Srinagar: At least fourteen shops and a seminary were damage in two separate fire incidents last night, in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, official sources said.
They said that fire broke at Khah Bazar Anantnag which involved a three-storeyed building, by the name ‘Shiekh Complex’ belonging to one Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sheikh. In the incident, they said, fourteen shops were damaged before fire tenders doused off the flames. The enormity of damage to the stuff inside the shops is being ascertained, the sources said.
In another incident, fire broke out at Dar-ul-Uloom Pindar at Aishmuqam during which the seminary got partially damaged. The fire was put out after sustained efforts by the Fire and Emergency Department assisted by locals, officials said.
In the incident however, a seminary student Suhail Ahmad Kar son of Ghulam Nabi, resident of Kokernag Anantnag received minor injury and was given immediate treatment.
The cause in both the incidents is being ascertained, they added. (GNS)
KV News
