A major blaze broke out early on Sunday, 20 January, at a garment store in the southern part of the city's Gariahat area, gutting goods worth lakhs and destroying multiple shops next to the building, a senior official of the fire department said.
At least 19 fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the fire that was noticed around 1 am at Traders Assembly building.
Nobody was injured in the fire, the cause of which was suspected to a transformer blast, the official said.
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