Kanpur, Apr 7 : Four factories were gutted this afternoon in a major fire that engulfed a printing press, a fridge and AC factory, an iron foundry and a cooler manufacturing unit.
The fire first originated from Dinesh Shukla's printing press, and the flames soon spread to Manish Sharma's iron foundry, where welding work was going on, followed by a fridge and AC unit owned by Girdhari Lal and a cooler factory owned by Deep Chand.
Circle Officer Nazirabad R P Yadav said, no loss of lives was reported, but several lakhs of rupees worth goods were destroyed. Four fire tenders tried to battle the blaze in Jareeb Chowki under Fazalganj locality.
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