Fire breaks out in Rourkela SBI, assets worth lakhs gutted

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KalingaTV News Network

Rourkela: Infrastructure worth lakhs were gutted in a major fire which broke out at the State Bank of India (SBI), Rourkela SME branch located at Bisra Square here in the wee hours of Saturday.

The incident took place at around 3 AM last night and some locals residing near the bank first spotted smokes billowing out of a part of the branch. They immediately called up the bank staffs and intimated the matter. However, till the bank staffs reached the spot flames have engulfed a sizeable part of the building reducing computers, furniture and important documents kept their, to ashes.

A team of five fire tenders which was sent to the branch by local fire station later in the night took hours to bring flames under control.

While the exact cause of the fire breakout could not have been ascertained yet, the bank authorities suspect it to be caused by an electric short-circuit.

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