Over 40 shops gutted in massive Abbottabad blaze

Over 40 shops gutted in massive Abbottabad blaze

A massive fire broke out early Saturday morning in Lunda Bazaar, located along the Karakoram Highway near Ayub Medical Complex in Mandian, reducing more than 40 shops and several nearby residential houses to ashes. The blaze caused losses amounting to millions of rupees. According to eyewitnesses, the fire is believed to have started due to a short circuit in one of the shops and quickly spread across the market, which was stocked with winter me…