Government pledges help to all whose house were gutted
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| "It is our priority to provide the homeless with food and shelter and only then we can think of other forms of assistance. The injured have been provided medical help," Mayor Bikas Ranjan Bhattacharya who visited the area today said. Apart from providing food to nearly 4000 people, the government has set up four relief camps to accomodate the homeless until an alternative arrangement was made, he said. "A medical van worked throughout the night so that the injured could get first aid," Deb said. A devastating fire destroyed nearly 600 shanties in the slum area yesterday. Eighteen fire tenders were rushed to the densely- populated Panchanna Gram at VIP market area on E M Bypass yesterday to douse the fire which broke out in a house and then engulfed most of the shanties. A devastating fire has gutted about 600 shanties in east Kolkata, causing huge damage to a large number of people who were rendered homeless and lost all their belongings. No casualty was reported as about 15 fire engines controlled the blaze on Sunday night after fighting the flames for nearly five hours. Fire brigade sources said the blaze started in a slum at Panchanna Gram and razed about 600 hutments in a few hours. The probable cause was a gas cylinder explosion. The fire, which broke out at about 6.30 pm, spread quickly among the bamboo huts with thatched roofs. "We have lost everything. A huge quantity of garments that we sew and supply to boutiques and stores were destroyed. We are devastated," said a resident, wailing uncontrollably. Senior politicians and some state ministers supervised the fire control operation. |
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