varanasi properties worth of crores of rupees were reduced to ashes when three cloth shops were gutted in chowk ballia on friday night according to reports the fire broke out in a shop at midnight due to a shortcircuit and it soon engulfed two other shops though the fire tenders were engaged to extinguish the fire the material stocked in the shops was destroyed completely bangalore a shop selling toys and clothes on sampige road was gutted on thursday morningthe incident took place around 945am when the fire was set to burn garbage in an empty site behind the shop after sometime even the shop caught fire since the shop had clothes and soft toys it could not be extinguished by residents three fire tenders were pressed into service and doused the fire the shop belongs to one fayaz