Shops, motorcycles and three-wheelers were gutted in a fire on Diwali in a market in Jammu district's Miran Sahib area, police said on Thursday
Jammu: Shops, motorcycles and three-wheelers were gutted in a fire on Diwali in a market in Jammu district's Miran Sahib area, police said on Thursday.
"Twenty stalls, nine motorcycles and 10 three-wheelers were destroyed in this fire," a police officer told IANS. The fire started around 9.30 p.m. on Wednesday and it took the firemen nearly two hours to control it.
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He said the exact cause of fire is being established, but "preliminary evidence suggested the fire started from a firecracker stall during Diwali celebrations".
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