Fire guts goods worth over Rs 10m in Kailali

SUDURPASCHIM: A fire that broke out in a shop in Chaumala Bazar of Gauriganga Municipality-1 in Kailali district, on Saturday night gutted goods worth Rs 10 million. The fire sparked from an electric short circuit in a mobile gallery shop owned by Himal Punmagar and spread to other nearby shops. The fire was doused almost an hour later with the help of fire brigades from Ghodaghodi and Godavari municipalities and police with the help of local residents. The fire gutted goods worth Rs 150,000 in Bishnu Kumar Pandey's Lumbini Hotel, goods worth Rs 1.5 million in Jai Singh Bhandari's grocery store, and goods worth Rs 1 million in the mobile phone shop of Paras Sapkota. Similarly, goods worth Rs 1.2 million were gutted in the mobile shop of Punmagar, Rs. 4.5 million worth of goods in the hardware shop owned by Chhabi Lal Khanal and goods worth Rs 3 million in a shoe shop run by Tanka Prasad Acharya, said Bed Prakash Joshi, spokesperson of Kailali District Police Office. By RSS READ ALSO:

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