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| Valley's lone Military School building gutted in fire | | Army provides monetary help, police registers case | | Early Times Report
GANDERBAL, Aug 4: In a six hour long devastating fire incident, a two storey building of Defense Ministry sponsored Mansbal Sanik School in Central Kashmir's Ganderbal district completely gutted on Sunday night. 'Iqbal House and Indira House housing hundreds of students completely destroyed in the incident.
Giving details Principal Sanik School Mansbal, Gayasuddin said that flames from the building appeared from the roof top on 8:10 pm on Sunday night.
"No student was present in the building as they were busy in taking dinner in another building, however, their belongings including study material was destroyed in the fire that was put to end at around 2 in the morning," he said adding that the school authorities will initiate a separate investigation to find out the cause of fire.
School sources said that hundreds of parents from all across Kashmir reached on spot to enquire about the well being of their children after the news about the devastating fire spread through social media. The students according to police were shifted to safer places while all efforts were made to extinguish the fire that engulfed the whole building.
A police official told that all but 15 fire tenders were put into service to douse the fire. "Keeping the intensity of fire into view, fire tenders from Srinagar were also called and it was only after six hours of hard work that fire was put out," he said, adding that at least five fire fighters were injured during the process.
Meanwhile, General Officer Commanding Chinar Corps Subrata Saha along with Commanding Officers of 13 and 5 RR, Brigadier 3 Sector, Additional SP Ganderbal and other police and administration officials visited the spot to assess the situation. Saha distributed Rs 1.20 lakhs among the affected sixty students and assured them further help in near future.
He also distributed blankets, bed sheets and tents among the affected students. "Whatever help we can do, we will do. We have provided monetary help to the students and I hope the state government would also help the school authorities," Saha told reporters after assessing the loss caused by fire.
A police official said that a case in this regard has been registered and investigation has been started to ascertain the cause of fire. |
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