Kolkata: A man was charred to death after a fire broke out at a two-wheeler garage at Andul in Howrah on Tuesday afternoon.
Six fire tenders doused the flames after a few hours. Later, the charred body of the garage owner Sandeep Das was recovered by the fire fighters.
According to sources, on Tuesday normal work was going on inside the gutted garage in Nimtala area when all of a sudden, fire broke out while an employee was busy wielding. Two fire tenders were pressed into action. Though the employees were able to get out of the garage, the owner failed to come out and was charred to death inside the garage.
Several two-wheelers which were parked inside the garage were gutted as well. It is suspected that a spark might have come in contact with petrol and the flames were triggered. Local residents, however, alleged that the owner was involved in illegal business of mixed fuel and black marketing of petrol. Forensic experts are likely to visit the gutted garage soon to collect samples for testing to ascertain the cause of the fire.