Dozens Of Shops Gutted In Mid-Night Fire In Handwara Town

Handwara: About a dozen shops were gutted in a devastating fire during the night intervening Tuesday and Wednesday in main town Handwara in Kupwara district.

Reports said the fire broke out in the mid-night hours, people didn’t come out to douse the flames as the result of which about a dozen shops were gutted and people saw the shops reduced to ashes in the morning.

Spots of fire and emergency services and police have reached the spot.