Bantwal: House gutted in kitchen-fire near Kalladka

Bellevision Media Network

Bantwal, 04 Aug 2016: A house was gutted in an accidental fire at Kudrebettu, near Kalladka, here on Wednesday August 3 morning.

 

The house of a certain Sitaram was gutted in the fire and the loss is being estimated to be about Rs 15 lac. The farm produce stored in one of the rooms was also perished in the incident.

 

Background of the case

The planting of rice sapling was underway with farmhands in a field front of Sitaram’s house. Sitaram’s wife was cooking food for the lunch using firewood in a kiln at the kitchen. She had gone out to help the farmhands when the fire engulfed the entire house.

 

The fire brigade arrived at the spot and the fire was contained with the joint efforts of both firefighters and locals.

 

The exact cause for igniting the fire was yet to be ascertained.

 

Prabhakar Bhat Kalladka, Kamala P Bhat, ZP former member Chennappa Kotian, TP former member Dinesh Amtoor, Baltila gram panchayat president Vittal Naik, vice president Poornima, PDO Pushpa, former president Sundar Salian and others visited the family.

 

Bantwal circle inspector Manjayya, Bantwal town sub-inspector Nandakumar and policemen visited the spot and investigations are in progress.