Friday, April 23, 2010

Fire at petrol station near Rangoon clinic

 
Friday, 23 April 2010 20:52 Mizzima News

New Delhi (Mizzima) - Fire broke out at a petrol station opposite a private hospital in the central northern Rangoon township of Bahan last night, fire officials said.
Five fire engines took about 10 minutes to bring the blaze across from the Shwegondaing Specialist Clinic at 7 East Shwegondaing Road under control Fire crews put out the flames at 5.25 p.m.

A local merchant told Mizzima how it started. “An electric cord dropped onto a petrol can and set it alight. Another can also caught fire,” a shop owner on Shwegondaing Road said.

A Rangoon Central Fire Station official said no one was injured but that the fire department were still investigation the cause of the fire and the value of the damages.