Cooch Behar, March 15 -- At least eighteen shops
were reduced to ashes in a major fire in North Bengal's
Cooch Behar district's Dinhata town early Saturday, Fire Brigade sources said.
However, there has been no report of casualty in the blaze, which was first
noticed around 04 30 hours.
Two fire fighting vehicles were deployed to douse the flames in about
two hours.
North Bengal Development Minister Udayan Guha,
also chairman of Dinhata Municipality, visited the affected market.
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