MAKWAPUR: Property worth Rs 7.5 million was gutted in a fire at Bajrabarahi of Thaha municipality-6 in Makwanpur last night.

The fire due to short-circuit completely ruined the house of Megha Bahadur Balami, Palung Area Police Office, Makwanpur said.

As Police Inspector Durga Khanal said, foodstuff, clothes, and electric devices including a computer and television were reduced to ashes in the fire.

The inferno was doused around two after of its origin with the help of firefighters, the Palung police and the locals, it is said.