PATIALA: Around 250 huts of migrant labourers stuck fire in Nurpur Bedi house of Ropar district on Wednesday night time. However, no casualties had been reported. Fire tenders had been rushed to the spot upon getting data from the locals and the police.
The explanation for the fire was but to be ascertained. Police claimed that huts stuck fire in tandem and rescue operation was initiated immediately. The labourers were evacuated from the area and transient shelters supplied to the affected.
Police stated the incident took place at around five pm when one of the huts stuck fire, which could not be extinguished. Police stated the huts had little space for the fire tenders to move freely to douse the flames.
Sources stated the huts had arise on the Army land and had been unfold over 2.five acres the place around 1,200 migrant labourers had been residing. Senior police officers and officers of the Ropar district management reached the spot to evaluate the incident.
Nurpur Bedi station area officer (SHO) Des Raj stated, “The house the place huts are constructed is simply close to our police station. We immediately knowledgeable the senior officers after calling the fire tenders to extinguish the fire. None of the labourers had been injured as everybody got here out of their huts after few of the shanties stuck fire. No case was registered as there have been no casualties. Food is being served to the affected other folks by way of a neighborhood charitable society.”
Besides Peer Baba Jinda Shaheed Society, various NGOs have additionally reached to help the labourers and had been providing clothes and other vital items.
Anandpur Sahib sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Rakesh Garg stated, “We are trying to provide speedy refuge and meals to the labourers who have misplaced their houses and belongings. They were given refuge at the langar corridor of Peer Baba society. It is being suspected that one of the huts might have stuck fire from a kerosene range.”
The explanation for the fire was but to be ascertained. Police claimed that huts stuck fire in tandem and rescue operation was initiated immediately. The labourers were evacuated from the area and transient shelters supplied to the affected.
Police stated the incident took place at around five pm when one of the huts stuck fire, which could not be extinguished. Police stated the huts had little space for the fire tenders to move freely to douse the flames.
Sources stated the huts had arise on the Army land and had been unfold over 2.five acres the place around 1,200 migrant labourers had been residing. Senior police officers and officers of the Ropar district management reached the spot to evaluate the incident.
Nurpur Bedi station area officer (SHO) Des Raj stated, “The house the place huts are constructed is simply close to our police station. We immediately knowledgeable the senior officers after calling the fire tenders to extinguish the fire. None of the labourers had been injured as everybody got here out of their huts after few of the shanties stuck fire. No case was registered as there have been no casualties. Food is being served to the affected other folks by way of a neighborhood charitable society.”
Besides Peer Baba Jinda Shaheed Society, various NGOs have additionally reached to help the labourers and had been providing clothes and other vital items.
Anandpur Sahib sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Rakesh Garg stated, “We are trying to provide speedy refuge and meals to the labourers who have misplaced their houses and belongings. They were given refuge at the langar corridor of Peer Baba society. It is being suspected that one of the huts might have stuck fire from a kerosene range.”
250 huts gutted in Nurpur Bedi, no casualties reported
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