6 months ago
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A backstage tannery godown astatine Thuthipattu colony adjacent Ambur municipality successful Tirupattur, disconnected the Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH-48), was gutted aft a occurrence broke retired successful the facility, resulting successful a heavy fume successful the area.
Police said that it was astir 2 a.m. erstwhile a fewer residents of the country noticed the heavy fume coming from the godown. Immediately, on with different residents, they tried to douse the occurrence but the blaze dispersed to the full facility.
Based connected an alert, a 10-member firefighters’ squad from Ambur, Pernambut and Vaniyambadi towns rushed to the location. Before they could scope the spot, the occurrence dispersed to the full godown. After astir 3 hours, occurrence fighters doused it.
However, the full installation got wholly gutted. An estimation of leather goods destroyed successful the godown is being carried out. Residents complained of terrible oculus irritation, particularly among children and elder citizens, owed to fume from the unit.
A lawsuit was registered by Ambur Taluk police. Police said that the existent origin of the mishap is being ascertained. Further probe is nether way.
