In a blaze, four shops were gutted at Naya More at Bokaro on Thursday morning. Fire engulfed the goods worth several lakhs, police said.
About 8.30 am fire broke out in a Tyre repairing shop first and later engulfed three adjacent shops, said an eyewitness.
“Fire got controlled after the stiff struggle of fire brigades and fire fighters; destroyed goods including others”, added the eyewitness.
The fire tenders succeeded in dousing the fire, after a long struggle of three
hours. “More than five firefighting vehicles dozens of fire tenders along with many local peoples were joined hands for the rescue”, added another eyewitness.
“We are probing the reasons behind the eruption of fire, said an official. ‘Right now its’ quit difficult to access the actual loss but it may assumed in lakhs”, he added.