Ex-MLA's house gutted, four injured in Kashmir

Srinagar, Mar 7 (UNI) House of a former Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) was gutted and two fire-fighters were injured while two persons were wounded in a road accident in the valley overnight, official sources said today.

They said fire broke out in the house of Ghulam Rasool Naz, a former MLA at Bandipora in north Kashmir.

Before the fire tenders could control the flames, the house and nearby cowshed were completely reduced to ashes.

Two fire-fighters were injured during the incident, they said adding the wounded were hospitalised.

In a separate incident, a motorcyclist was injured when he fell down after hitting a pedestrian at Mirgund on Srinagar-Baramulla road. Both the injured were hospitalised.

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