Fire destroys NHPC building in Kargil

Kargil, Nov 8 (UNI) A building of the National Hydro-electric Power Corporation (NHPC) was partially gutted in a fire at the Chutak power project in this border district of Jammu and Kashmir today, sources said.

They said the blaze started at around 1115 hrs this morning from one of the flats in the two-storey building. The fire soon engulfed several other nearby flats on the first floor of the building.

It took nearly two hours for three fire tenders to control the blaze, the sources added.

No one was wounded in the incident, they said, adding all official records were also saved.

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