Kolkata, March 4 A fire broke out in a cluster of shops near the Madhyamgram railway station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, officials said.
There were no reports of any injuries or fatalities due to the fire, which erupted around 2 pm, they said.
"A total of eight to nine shops were engulfed in flames due to an explosion of LPG cylinders stored inside. Most of the shops were food outlets," a fire brigade official said.
Three fire tenders managed to extinguish the fire, which partially disrupted vehicular movement along the busy Sodepur-Madhyamgram Road near the station, he said.
There was no threat to the railway station premises or train movement, a district official said.