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  A firefighter examines a fire site in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, on Aug. 23, 2017. Hundreds of shops were burnt to ashes in a high-intensity fire that broke out in a market in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday, officials and local reports said. (Xinhua/Saadia Seher)

  ISLAMABAD, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of shops were burnt to ashes in a high-intensity fire that broke out in a market in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Wednesday, officials and local reports said.

  Zeeshan Naqvi, deputy mayor of Islamabad, told Xinhua that the fire broke out in the Sunday Market after a sweeper torched some trash near a makeshift cloth stall. The fire later spread to the nearby cloth section of the market.

  There was no report of casualties as the market was closed on Wednesday.

  "Nobody was affected by the fire because it was an off-day in the market, so there was no vendor or customer present in the market when it was engulfed by the fire," said Naqvi. Local reports said that over 600 shops were burnt in the accident, while Naqvi put the number at more than 1,000 shops.

  According to the official, 12 fire tenders and a helicopter participated in the rescue operation and it took them at least three hours to put out the fire.

  The smoke rising from the market could be seen several kilometers away from the site.

  The Sunday Market located in downtown of Islamabad comprises around 2,000 stalls and shops, and works on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday.

  Naqvi said all the affected shopkeepers will be compensated with cash amount for their burnt products, while their destroyed shops will be rebuilt by the government.

Editor:Di Source: Xinhua Time:2017-08-24 15:20:04

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