A major fire broke out early on Sunday in a five-storey building in Gariahat, south Calcutta, gutting goods worth lakhs and destroying multiple shops next to the building, a senior fire department official said. The building houses a garment store on the ground and first floor and residential apartments on the floors above, the official told PTI. A major fire broke out early on Sunday in a five-storey building in Gariahat, south Calcutta, gutting goods worth lakhs and destroying multiple shops next to the building, a senior fire department official said. The building houses a garment store on the ground and first floor and residential apartments on the floors above, the official told PTI. Earlier, a fire department official had said a blast in a transformer could have started the fire.

Source: The Telegraph January 20, 2019 07:18 UTC