KARACHI: Wooden products worth millions of rupees were reduced to ashes after a fire engulfed an industrial unit in Korangi on Saturday, officials said.

No casualty was reported in the incident.

The officials said that the furniture manufacturing unit in Sector 8 of the Korangi Industrial Area reported a fire on its ground and first floors.

“We initially moved two fire tenders to the spot,” said an official at the Korangi fire station. “But later the resources were enhanced as the fire was huge and since there were mostly wooden goods and some combustible material.

“A total of eight fire tenders took almost seven hours to complete the operation.”

He said an initial investigation report found that the fire was caused by a short circuit.

“There was no injury or other loss to the people inside the industrial unit as fire fighters took all due care and evacuated each and every person while fighting the fire,” the official said.

He said the exact value of losses had not been ascertained but an initial assessment indicated that the company suffered a loss of ‘millions of rupees’.

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