Early morning blaze guts Kolkata shops on Sunday

KOLKATA: An afternoon prior to the Bengali new 12 months, tragedy struck a bunch of investors as a fire broke out at Lake Gardens crossing near Lords Bakery in the early hours of Sunday. In all, 22 shops had been affected, of which 17 had been gutted. However, no casualty used to be reported.
According to police, the hearth used to be spotted around 4am in one of the most shops in the back of the night time marketplace — Sandhya Bazar. It quickly unfold to the opposite shops. Ten hearth tenders took over two hours to douse the flames, however most of the shops in the market, in addition to those lining the street main in opposition to Golf Green, had been broken by means of then.

The gutted shops at the marketplace

“Most of the department stores in the space had been promoting cotton, mattresses and pillows. There used to be also a salon, a hen shop, a tea stall and 3 shops promoting stationery. All of them had been gutted. However, no person used to be injured. The reason for the hearth is yet to be ascertained,” mentioned a senior officer of Jadavpur police station.

Local citizens mentioned they suspected one of the most tea stalls in the space used to be the seat of the hearth, including that they'd heard a variety of gasoline cylinders explode after the hearth started.

“Although probably the most popular markets in south Kolkata, Sandhya Bazar has no hearth safety mechanism and used to be filled with flamable pieces. Apart from the department stores that had been gutted, there have been a number of different makeshift retail outlets which were also badly broken. But luckily none used to be injured,” mentioned a senior hearth legit.