India, Sept. 21 -- A fire destroyed at least more than a dozen shanties and a major part of a garbage yard located on an open field on the outskirts of Naharpur village at Sector 86 near IMT Manesar on Saturday morning, fire department officials said.

Officials said that the fire broke out at 10.45am and the Manesar fire station received the alert at 10.50am. Within five minutes, two fire tenders from the station and one belonging to an automobile manufacturing plant, had reached the spot to douse the fire..

Fire department officials said that the fire had erupted from one of the hutments which soon spread and the garbage yard also went up into the flames.

"By 11.30pm, we had controlled the flames and in the next hour, the fire was com...