NONGSTOIN: Two persons sustained grievous injury and a house and four shops were gutted in a fire that broke out in a market at Riangdo here early on Thursday morning.
Sources said the fire possibly started due to short circuit in a house that belonged to Sirian Lyngkhoi, an employee in the Forest Department, around 3am.
Police are investigating the case to ascertain the cause of the fire and the extent of loss of property.
The blast was so powerful that was heard even from a long distance and the blazing flames spread fast to the adjacent shops destroying them, the sources said.
Lyngkhoi and his father, Naren Baruah, have sustained 40 per cent burn injuries while trying to retrieve belongings.
The sources said Baruah was the first to see the flames.
He woke up his grandchildren and Lyngkhoi, who took the children out. But he went back into the house to get the children’s school uniforms and books.
Lyngkhoi went into the flames for the third time to retrieve office documents but could not escape unscathed, the sources said.
The duo was taken to Riangdo CHC with 40 per cent burns.
The fire also destroyed a two-wheeler belonging to Lyngkhoi’s neighbor Morningstar Syiemlieh and damaged a portion of the Forest Department’s vehicle that Lyngkhoi drove.
