200 passenger cars of Utoo Cabs gutted in fire at Chennai parking lot

The cabs were not insured. No human casualties reported

Around 180-200 passenger cars of Utoo Cabs, the taxi hailing company launched by C Sivasankaran, founder of telecom firm Aircel, parked in an open space at Porur, in Chennai, were destroyed in a fire which broke out on Sunday afternoon.
 
The on-demand online taxi-hailing brand has not been on roads as the company is planning to relaunch it with electric cars.
 
According to information available, the cars were parked at a location near Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre and the fire spread due to dry grass on the ground.
 
The fire went on for several hours, destroying 180-200