50 stalls, two shops gutted in Quetta fire.

QUETTA -- More than 50 stalls and two shops reduced to ashes after a fire broke out in a market near Taro Chowk intersection in Pashtoonabad area of Quetta.

Police said the fire broke out in the early hours of Wednesday when the Bazaar was closed on account of Eid holidays.

Fire started in a stall set up in front of a market and engulfed other stalls and shops. A fire brigade of the Quetta Metropolitan Corporation was sent to the site after receiving information.

Fireman initially faced difficulty in putting out the fire due to blowing wilds in Quetta valley. However, it was finally brought under control after three hours.

'Fifty-five stalls and two shops were gutted in the fire,' a senior police officer said. According to initial investigation, the fire broke out due to a short circuit, he said.

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