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Kilinochchi market complex gone in blazing inferno
View(s):The Kilinochchi market complex with some 120 shops was razed to the ground in a massive fire which erupted on Friday night, police said. Kilinochchi region’s Deputy Inspector General W.M.R.M. Welikanna said special police teams were deployed for investigations. Ceylon Electricity Board officials were also carrying out on-the-spot investigations as initial reports seem to suggest that faulty wiring may have caused the fire, he said.
District Secretary S. Arumainayagam said damages so far were estimated at a massive Rs. 400 million. Initially, the area’s people had tried to douse the fire and later some 100 Army personnel had also joined with some three water bowsers, but were not successful. They then summoned the fire brigade from Jaffna but it took about two hours for firefighters to arrive and by that time, the whole market complex was gone in the inferno.
Shop owners, dazed by shock and horror, were pleading that the Government should give them compensation.
Friday night's fire in Killinochchi