PRAYAGRAJ, April 28 -- Several hundred files related to aided schools were reduced to ashes in a massive fire that broke out in two important sections of the Uttar Pradesh Directorate of Secondary Education building in Prayagraj on Sunday morning. No casualty was reported in the incident.

According to chief fire officer, Prayagraj, RK Pandey, prima facie the cause of the incident seems to be electrical short-circuit. Being a Sunday, no one was present in the building at the time of the incident.

The fire, which broke out in room number 14 and 15 on the ground floor of the directorate, was brought under control after three hours of struggle by firemen through four fire tenders.

The two rooms are said to have several hundred files pertai...