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Fire ravages plastic raw materials store in capital
[The Source: sana'a/ hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 05/06/2010]
Firefighters brought under control Friday a major fire that ravaged a plastic raw materials store in Yemen's capital of Sana'a. No casualties were reported and other losses were estimated at YR 60 million
The cause of the fire has not been clear yet.However, the owner of the store who also owns a shoe factory told police that he received days ago a telephone call from a shopkeeper in the area telling him that cleanliness workers had stolen some materials from the store, according to some media outlets.Jalal Muhammad Al-Marmadi also told police that the shopkeeper had warned him they should not be blamed if something bad happened to the store.Al-Marmadi did not hire someone to guard the materials he had planned to use at his factory, according to police.Eight fire trucks were dispatched to tackle the fire in the Sawan district from which thick black smoke billowed into the air and was seen from the fringes of Sana'a.
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