Seven injured after fire broke out in Guwahati

Staff Reporter, Guwahati, July 23: At least seven people, including two minors, sustained burn injuries in a massive fire that broke out at the Bilpar area in Guwahati late on Friday last. The fire allegedly broke out in a two-storeyed building in the area due to leakage in an LPG cylinder. The residents immediately informed the Paltan Bazar fire station. Several fire engines were hard-pressed into service to drench the fires which were controlled after over three hours’ effort, but not before gutting half a dozen houses leaving seven people suffering burn injuries and abolishing property worth crores of rupees. All injured were directly rushed to a nearby hospital after which the doctors referred four of them to the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH). The injured are Shankar Mallick (56), Mukul Moni Das (54), Soma Das (53), Sanjay Kar (46), Sanjay Malakar (43), Amarjeet Das (15) and Manjit Kar (10). Speaking to EastMojo, GMCH superintendent Abhijit Sarma said, “Soma Das, Shankar Mallick, Mukul Moni Das and Sanjay Malakar are experiencing treatment at the hospital and all of them have received five to twenty-five per cent burn injuries.”