Inaruwa, April 10: Grains, jewellery and household goods worth Rs 600,000 belonging to shital prasad mehata was gutted in a fire that broke out at his house at Ward No. 2, Inaruwa Municipality recently.

How the fire started is not known. It is learnt that the fire was brought under control by using fire engines from inaruwa, Itahari and Dharan.

In Biratnagar, six houses and property worth Rs. 576,515 were destroyed in two incidents of fire recently in Thamjung VDC, Taplejung and Madhya Sarlahi VDC, Sunsari.

According to eastern regional police news room, a fire erupted Saturday at the residence of Taranath Pokharel of Thamlung-3, Taplejung gutted property worth Rs. 424,175 including jewellery and food grains.

In another incident in Madhya Sarlahi VDC, Sunsari, five hutments belonging to Tunulal Pal, Phakani Lal Pal, Bhawani Pal, kabutridevi Pal and Kusumlal Pal and their belonging worth rs. 155,340 were destroyed.

In Itahari, property worth Rs. 5 million includings jute, corrugated sheets, rice, wheat, lintel and oil was gutted in a fire which broke out suddenly last night in the goowons of Bulbul Prasad Rauniyar and Laxmi Raya in Jhumka at ward No-2 of Bhadgaon VDC of Sunsari district.

The fire was put out with 18 hours of efforts by fire brigades from Itahari, Dharan and Inauruwa.

Likewise, the fire which broke out from the house of Prahlad Chauhan at Ward No-2 of Letant VDC engulfed three other neighbouring houses destroying property worth Rs. 2.5 million.

The fire was brought under control through a joint effort of fire brigades from Biratnagar, Bhadrapur and Damak, and local police and people.

In Nepalgunj, paddy, rice, mustard seeds and other foodgrains worth about Rs. 1,800,000 were destroyed when fire broke out at the Jayabhawani rice mills at Shumshergunj VDC Ward No. 8 Parbatipur in Banke district recently.

The fire also gutted machinery and electric goods.

The fire was caused by electric short circuit at 9:45 at night and was brought under control after four hours with the help of Nepalgunj fire brigade, local people, police and volunteers.