Shillong: A fire ripped through two food stalls at Ward’s Lake on Thursday evening. The blaze started at 8 pm during the opening night of the sixth annual Shillong Literary Festival. One stall was empty, but the other belonged to Shepherds Table. Flames grabbed the screen covering the stall and moved fast. Panicked crowds scattered.
Most festival-goers stayed across the venue where they watched live music from artists backed by the Chief Minister’s Meghalaya Grassroots Music Project. Fire crews arrived in 15 minutes. They killed the flames in another 15 minutes. Nobody got hurt.
The cause of the fire remains unknown. One organiser told The Shillong Times that the situation had been brought under control promptly and confirmed that the festival would continue as scheduled, with no changes to the remaining programmes.
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