Fire damages market in Myanmar's Mandalay
(Adds Yangon fire)
YANGON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A major fire damaged a shopping market in Mandalay, Myanmar's second city, causing some injuries but no deaths, a fire official said on Monday.
The blaze, at the Yadanabon Market near Mandalay's railway station, started at around 8 a.m. and raged for five hours before it was brought under control.
In the former Burma's biggest city, Yangon, a fire swept through a neighbourhood on Monday, destroying scores of homes.
"Nobody was killed in both fires. There were some injured in Mandalay, most probably firefighters," the Fire Department official, who declined to be named, said.
The cause of the fires was not immediately known, but it may have been due to electrical faults, the official said.
According to government data, 54 people were killed in 944 fires in Myanmar last year, caused mainly by kitchen accidents, negligence and electrical faults. (Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Editing by Darren Schuettler)
YANGON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A major fire damaged a shopping market in Mandalay, Myanmar's second city, causing some injuries but no deaths, a fire official said on Monday.
The blaze, at the Yadanabon Market near Mandalay's railway station, started at around 8 a.m. and raged for five hours before it was brought under control.
In the former Burma's biggest city, Yangon, a fire swept through a neighbourhood on Monday, destroying scores of homes.
"Nobody was killed in both fires. There were some injured in Mandalay, most probably firefighters," the Fire Department official, who declined to be named, said.
The cause of the fires was not immediately known, but it may have been due to electrical faults, the official said.
According to government data, 54 people were killed in 944 fires in Myanmar last year, caused mainly by kitchen accidents, negligence and electrical faults. (Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Editing by Darren Schuettler)
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