17 cattle charred to death in late night blaze

Seventeen cattle were charred alive after a mud house was gutted in a fire in Manjakote area of Rajouri district overnight, officials said on Friday.

They said that the fire erupted during intervening night of March 30-31,in a mud house of Tazeem Akhtar widow of Mohammad Anayat at Panjgrain Thanda Pani, W. No 5, in Manjakote, resulting in the charring alive of two buffaloes, 15 sheep and ten hens.

However there was no human loss in this incident, they said. A police officer said a case has been registered and cause of the fire is being ascertained. (GNS)