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A 35-year-old idiosyncratic sustained pain injuries aft a store that sells pooja items caught fire, destroying 2 shops and 7 two-wheelers, connected Kamatchi Amman temple Street adjacent Arunachaleswarar temple successful Tiruvannamalai municipality connected Wednesday.
Police said that the injured idiosyncratic was identified arsenic Mohammed Ali, a local. An archetypal enquiry revealed that it was astir 9:20 p.m. connected Wednesday erstwhile S. Sabeer Ahmed, the store owner, noticed fume coming from an electrical container successful the shop, located connected the crushed level of a single-storey commercialized analyzable with astir 30 shops.
Police said a immense measurement of camphor, that was stored adjacent the electrical box, went into flames aft a spark from the electrical unit. In minutes, occurrence dispersed to the full shop, which is astir 100 sq.ft. As they screamed for help, Sabeer Ahmed and his idiosyncratic Ali, who sustained burns connected some his hands, were rescued by different shopkeepers and residents.
Based connected an alert, Tiruvannamalai Town constabulary and firefighters from Arunachaleswarar Temple rushed to the spot. An eight-member firefighter team, led by A. Palaniswamy, Station Fire Officer (SFO), struggled to incorporate the blaze from spreading to different shops and buildings connected the constrictive stretch.
“We wholly doused the occurrence and fume astir 6.45 a.m. connected Thursday. The incidental occurred astir 1 kilometre from the Arunachaleswara temple,” Mr. Palaniswamy told The Hindu.
Police said that the occurrence was contained wrong the crushed level of the gathering earlier spreading to the archetypal floor, wherever the store proprietor had stocked astir 2 tonnes of camphor for merchantability during Karthigai Deepam festival.
Police said an electrical abbreviated circuit successful the electrical container could beryllium the crushed for the incident. A probe is underway.
