A plastic factory was gutted in the industrial estate here destroying property worth lakhs of rupees this afternoon.
A short-circuit in an electrical transformer in the estate caused the fire and as the 70,000-litre diesel stored inside the factory intensified, the blaze engulfed the factory.
It took eight fire brigades over three hours to control the flame.
None was injured as the factory was closed on Sunday today.
Another fire damaged a three-storeyed building which housed a private boys hostel following a short-circuit here. A woman was injured in the fire.
Five huts and a shop were gutted in another fire in the city's Anandnagar locality, but nobody was injured.
