A 9-year-old girl was injured and plastic raw materials worth Rs 5 lakh were gutted in massive fire which broke out at a godown at Kabadkhana under Hanumanganj police station area late night on Monday.
The owner of the godown Mohd Khalid had claimed that the goods which were engulfed in the fire were worth Rs 5 lakh. The Station House Officer of Hanumanganj police station Jayant Temre told that the godown was filled with plastic granules which are used for manufacturing plastic bottles.
The circumstantial evidences suggest that it was short-circuit borne fire which spread rapidly and engulfed the whole godown. The police have not received any information of any casualty or any kind of injuries sustained by any one.
Only a girl who was an onlooker sustained injury which was due to electrocution, he added.
Although the girl is under going treatment at the Intensive Care Unit but the police are not aware about the victim’s condition and claimed that the information of the victim has not been received by the police yet. Fire fighter Irshad told that around 1 o’ clock in the night fire brigade received information of the fire in a godown at Kabadkhana area.
Fire tender vehicles and water tankers were rushed to the spot. Four fire tender vehicles and three water tankers started the operation and it took around 5 long hours and 22 fire fighters to pacify the massive fire.
The fire was completed put out at around 5 am. The godown was not equipped with fire fighting with equipments and no was guarding the godown.