AGARTALA, April 23 (TIWN): Residents of ker chowmuhani area on Saturday narrowly escaped from massive fire incident when fire broke out in the restaurant in the evening hours.

However, there was no report of injury into the incident.

Sources said that the fire broke out from cylinder blast which was illegally brought for use.

Panic gripped the area, when such a fire broke in a restaurant at Ker chowmuhani.

Reportedly, the incident took place in the evening when a localite of the area witnessed smoke spreading wide along with the flames and immediately realized that fire broke out in the shops from cylinder blast.

The eye witness also said that the fire broke out due to the cylinder blast.

The area is one of the oldest and most-congested in the city. Located near a residential area and hence there were fears that the fire could expand much higher.

Police also claimed that the fire sparked off in the shop from cylinder blast in the restaurant located at ker chowmuhani and there is no report of any suspicious incident behind the massive fire break out.

Tension gripped the area and many local shopkeepers shut down their establishments in panic. People ran to safer place fearing a massive fire in case the flames raised high. Following the incident huge crowd gathered in the area. Though the police and fire tenders reached the spot, the panic gradually spread in the entire area generating serious terror among the locals in the area.

However, it is to be mentioned here that that fire service reached the spot and brought the fire under control.