This Article is From Oct 03, 2012

Two infants killed in Guwahati fire

Guwahati: Two infants were killed in a devastating fire that gutted over 300 huts in the Fancy Bazar area of Guwahati, official sources said on Wednesday.

The major fire broke out at Kedar Road burning to cinder over 300 bamboo huts of slum-dwellers along the railway tracks killing two infants late on Tuesday night, the sources said.

The blaze was doused by the fire tenders after battling with the inferno for two hours, they said. However, the sources added that the cause of the fire and the extent of damage was yet to be ascertained.

The local people claimed that the fire began from one hut and spread to the other huts within a very short time gutting all huts within an hour.

Meanwhile, the Kamrup Metropolitan district administration has ordered a probe into the cause of the fire.

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