Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 15:
Among other losses, office blocks of the Contractor Dealing Assistant and Executive Engineer (Senapati) located in the Electricity Department complex, keishampat have been substantially damaged when a fire broke out at around 4.35 pm today.
The exact figure of loss in the inferno could not be estimated due to lack of visibility, said sources while adding that salvage operations would resume tomorrow.
Information culled from the Manipur Fire Service cited the alarm being communicated at about 4.40 pm following which five fire tenders were pressed into service.
Police department also joined the fire-fight with two water canons (Varun).
According to eye witness report, the flames from the fire source were so intense that shopkeepers of Paona International Market emptied inflammable and lighter materials to a safer site.
Preliminary findings confirmed that the fire had damaged a computer set and some official documents.