Factory godown gutted in Hattar.

HARIPUR -- The godown of a factory was gutted after a fire erupted in Hattar Economic Zone, police and witnesses said here on Friday.

The cause of fire was short-circuit, SHO Hattar Ehjaz Khan said. The police quoted the management of the factory as saying that the fire erupted from the ground floor of the godown during the night and engulfed the ground and the first floor, reducing raw material and the finished products to ashes.

The loss, according to the management and police, was estimated to be Rs70 million. The...

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