Mysuru: A major fire broke out at the agarbathi packaging godown of N.R. Group at Ashokapuram near the old Manandavadi Road in the wee hours of today. Electric short circuit is suspected to be the reason behind the fire and goods worth over Rs. 1 crore have been destroyed.
N.R. Group is owned by N. Rangarao and Sons and is the manufacturers of Cycle Pure Agarbathies and they had their packaging unit on a two-acre plot at Ashokapuram. The building belongs to one Jayaprakash and it was rented out to the agarbathi manufacturers to store and prepare their packaging material.
