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Fire breaks out at temple in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu
Fire engine from Shimla's Rampur was called to put out the fire in the temple, located around 85 km from Kullu district headquarters and 75 km from state capital Shimla.
SHIMLA: A fire broke out at a temple in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, police said on Sunday.
The fire started at around 10.30 pm on Saturday at Devi Diwasa Mandir in Kushwa village located in Nirmand tehsil on the border of Kullu and Shimla districts, they said.
Fire engine from Shimla's Rampur was called to put out the fire in the temple, located around 85 km from Kullu district headquarters and 75 km from state capital Shimla, they added.
The temple property was gutted in the fire.
However, no loss of life has been reported, police said.
The exact cause of the fire is being ascertained, they added.