LAKKI MARWAT: Several makeshift outlets reduced to ashes when fire suddenly broke out in Darra Pezu Bazaar on late Friday night.

This is the third time that fire has broken out in the town during the current year. In April, over a dozen shops had been gutted when fire engulfed the bazaar in Pezu city while several shops were gutted when fire erupted last month.

Witnesses said that fire spread in no time and reduced to ashes around eight shops in the bazaar located along the busy Indus Highway.

They said that local people and policemen rushed to the bazaar to put out the fire. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained immediately.

The shops were closed when the fire erupted.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2018