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Fire breaks out at market in Herat
(Last Updated On: June 17, 2023)
A huge fire broke out in a market in Afghanistan’s western Herat province before dawn on Saturday.
The incident happened at Qasr-e-Herat clothing market in PD 7 of the city.
Abdullah Insaf, the provincial police spokesman, said that the cause of the fire was believed to have been an electric fault. The fire meanwhile raged for hours.
The Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement that the fire was reported to the local fire department one hour after it broke out.
The ministry said that the incident caused no human casualties, but there was a huge financial loss.