Udupi, April 20: As many as 18 huts were gutted in a fire mishap in a slum near Hanuman Garage, Chitpady, here on Friday morning.
In the mishap around 10 am, a moped, three bicycles, gold jeweleries, grocery items, cocking vessels, cloths, ration cards, voter ID cards etc were also burnt down. No casualty has been reported.
6-9 migrating labourers from Bagalkot and Badami region lived in each of the huts. At the time of the mishap most of the inmates had left to the native place, some of the labourers had left to their daily jobs.
Rathna, one of the residents of the slum said that she had collected the gold ornaments from the contractor's house as they were to leave to their native place in Bagalkot district the same night and kept in their hut. All that had been burnt'', she said.
It was worth Rs 30,000 she added. Though Fire service personnel plunged in to action, by the time they extinguished fire everything was in ashes, as the huts were made of coconut leaves rapped with plastic sheet.
Udupi police registered a case and investigating.
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