Several cars were gutted and goods worth lakhs were damaged when amassive fire broke out inside the basement of upmarket Baisakhi mallin Salt Lake in the north-eastern fringes of Kolkata. Though six fire tenders were pressed into service thick smokeprevented the fire personnel from entering the mall, State FireMinister Sujit Basu who rushed to the spot within minutes said. “It seems that most of the cars, perhaps a dozen of them might have been burnt,” said a mall official adding the “fire happened due tosome welding work going there.”
The fire was far from being controlled when reports last came in.