LAHORE, Aug 18: Thousands of CDs and motorcycle spare parts worth Rs4 million were reduced to ashes in two fire incidents in the provincial capital on Monday.

Rescue 1122 and Edhi officials said the first incident took place in the upper portion of a house of Sheikh Muhammad Nawaz in Rizwan Street, Paki Thatti, Samanabad. The fire erupted in the warehouse where the owner had stored thousands of CDs. The owner said that he suffered a loss of up to Rs2 million.

He suspected that someone in his neighbours set his warehouse on fire because they were not in good terms with him.

Quoting a local resident, an Edhi official said that Nawaz was involved in piracy of CDs.

In the second incident, a fire erupted in the record room of a motorcycle assembling factory on the Multan Road due to short circuiting at 3pm. The firefighters extinguished the fire after some hectic efforts.

Spare parts of motorcycles, the sale record and some infrastructure were gutted. Owner Tanveer Ahmed claimed to have suffered a Rs2 million loss.

ROBBERIES: Two robbers stopped Ajmal and his wife at Fatehgarh in limits of Herbanspura police and deprived them of a cell phone, jewellery worth Rs100,000 and a motorcycle (LXE-6154). Two robbers, riding a car, stopped Adil Sarwar near Kotha Pind in Faisal Town police precincts and snatched Rs40,000 and a gold chain.

Two robbers stormed into the shop of Ahsaan in Hassan Town main bazaar in Sabzazar police limits, looted Rs25,000 in cash and calling cards worth Rs25,000 from the owner as well as Rs50,000 and a cell phone from a salesman at gunpoint and escaped on their motorcycle.