Rajasthan: 1 dead in cloth market fire in Bikaner

A man was burnt alive when a market caught fire in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district, police said on Tuesday.

The fire broke out around 10 pm on Monday and, soon, it engulfed the market, which had nearly 22 temporary shops of woolen clothes. Fire tenders soon reached the spot and tried to douse the flames.

A 55-year-old man, Ramjan, who also had a shop there, got trapped and burnt alive.