<p>Port Blair: A massive fire gutted the Rangat Market in Middle Andaman in the early hours of Tuesday, officials said.</p><p>Nearly 40-50 shops were gutted in the blaze, they said.</p><p>"We received a call around 1.15 am about the fire. We immediately responded with five fire tenders but the blaze spread rapidly due to the wooden structures of the market," Rahul Nair, Sub-divisional Police Officer of Rangat, said.</p>.Earthquake of magnitude 4.4 hits Andaman and Nicobar Islands. <p>"There have been no casualties. I would like to thank the shopkeepers for their cooperation," he said.</p><p>It was one of the main markets in the Middle Andaman district, and more than 70 years old.</p><p>In the morning, shopkeepers were seen taking their partially-damaged belongings out of their shops.</p><p>"I am completely devastated by the incident as I have lost items worth lakhs of rupees. We demand a proper inquiry into the incident to find what exactly caused the fire," Litton Paul, the owner of Kolkata Cloth Store, told <em>PTI</em>.</p><p>Another trader alleged that some miscreants took advantage of the fire and stole items from the affected shops.</p>
<p>Port Blair: A massive fire gutted the Rangat Market in Middle Andaman in the early hours of Tuesday, officials said.</p><p>Nearly 40-50 shops were gutted in the blaze, they said.</p><p>"We received a call around 1.15 am about the fire. We immediately responded with five fire tenders but the blaze spread rapidly due to the wooden structures of the market," Rahul Nair, Sub-divisional Police Officer of Rangat, said.</p>.Earthquake of magnitude 4.4 hits Andaman and Nicobar Islands. <p>"There have been no casualties. I would like to thank the shopkeepers for their cooperation," he said.</p><p>It was one of the main markets in the Middle Andaman district, and more than 70 years old.</p><p>In the morning, shopkeepers were seen taking their partially-damaged belongings out of their shops.</p><p>"I am completely devastated by the incident as I have lost items worth lakhs of rupees. We demand a proper inquiry into the incident to find what exactly caused the fire," Litton Paul, the owner of Kolkata Cloth Store, told <em>PTI</em>.</p><p>Another trader alleged that some miscreants took advantage of the fire and stole items from the affected shops.</p>