Daijiworld Media Network - Beltangady (SP)
Beltangady, Apr 11: Due to accidental fire, an electronics and mobile shop located near Marigudi at Ujire near here was gutted. Reportedly, things worth over Rs 35 lac were reduced to ashes in this tragedy. The fire also spread to a hotel and provision store located next door.
The driver of a poultry truck was the first to notice that fire had begun to envelope the shop in the early hours of Wednesday April 10. He immediately alerted the locals, but by then the fire also spread to a hotel and provision store next to the electronics shop. Although the fire brigade arrived in some time and extinguished the fire, by then almost all the assets of the shop had burnt down.
A report about the fire was filed at the police station here.