New Delhi, April 26: A huge fire destroyed the National museum of natural history (NMNH) here early weekday, reducing its invaluable assortment as well as fossils to ashes, officers reported.
The surprising devastation forced setting Minister Prakash Javadekar to order an pressing fire audit of all museums across the country because it emerged that the fire fighting system did not work on the museum.
The blaze erupted around 1.50 a.m. and quickly unfold within the multi-storey building that housed the museum, simply across the Nepalese embassy and around 3 kilometres from the Parliament House.
“The National museum was on FICCI property. we are going to assess the harm as before long as we tend to (can) and see however we are able to restore it,” added a surprised Javadekar.
“Everything has been broken, some by fire, some by gases and a few by the water accustomed douse the flames,” a politician claimed on the condition of obscurity.
Added Vikas Rana, a museum official: “The museum had several fossils and species. Everything is lost… Around 3,000 youngsters from Delhi and near regions accustomed visit it daily.”
Some thirty five fire tenders battled the spring flames, delivering the fire formally in check by concerning six a.m. By then, just about nothing within the museum of importance can be saved.
Delhi fire Service chief G.C. Mishra blashed “an electrical gadget” for the inferno.
“No human intervention was concerned in inflicting the fire that started from the seventh floor. However, We’ve fully doused the fire however cooling operation remains on,” Mishra told
