Mangalore: A fire broke out in six shops at the KC Road junction in Talapady area here on Friday July 25, in the wee hours on the morning.

At around, 5.30am a shop caught fire due to short circuit, which soon spread in all the other connected shops and caused a blaze.

Fortunately there were no casualties. However the estimated loss is about 80 lakhs.

The shop that caught fire were, Zam Zam Bakery belonging to Abdul Sattar, Ideal Bakery, NM Point mobile, a computers service centre belonging to Naushad, a vegetable shop belonging to Mohammed Ali, a cloth store and another shop.

Reportedly Abdul Sattar was the first one to realize that the shops had caught fire, and he immediately called Mescom however no one responded.

Later he called up the fire service from Pandeshwar, but according to sources,  they too arrived late. At last the fire personnel managed to douse the fire by around 7.30 am.

The locals who were angry with the fire personnel for arriving late held a flash protest demanding a fire service under the Thokkottu limits.

A case has been registered in Ullal police station.