Several houses damaged in massive fire in Srinagar

SRINAGAR, Dec 27 (SABAH): Several houses were gutted in an overnight massive blaze at Kunrache locality in Dalgate area of Kashmir capital on Tuesday.

According to media reports, the flames broke out of a residential house and soon after spreading to several structures in proximity during night hours that left several families affected.

Fire and emergency service officials said that fire broke out at 5:27 am in a house in the locality on the banks of Dal Lake and engulfed other nearby structures damaging four double story houses severely and two others suffered partial damage in the incident.

Several fire fighting engines were rushed from the nearby fire stations to douse the flames that controlled the leaping flames.

The cause of the fire is being investigated, they said, and added no one was injured in the incident.