aurangabad at least four shops were reduced to ashes after a cotton mattress manufacturing unit in the jatwada area of aurangabad city caught fire on wednesday morningarticles running to the tune of rs 15 lakh were destroyed preliminary probe has indicated that the fire broke out at the mattress manufacturing unit owned by akbar khanbefore the shop owners in the area could douse the flames it had already spread to the neighbouring shops police said that articles including machines foam material and cotton caught fire and soon started spreading it was after an alert citizen dialled a call to the fire brigade authorities that several fire tenders were rushed to the spot by the time fire tenders reached the incident spot the adjoining national fabrication shop owned by syed aslam syed hussain tea stall owned by farooqui abdul vakil and a chicken shop of danish salim qureshi were reduced to ashesit took about a couple of hours for the fire tenders to douse the flames the mattress factory incurred losses of over rs 13 lakh the tea stall owner incurred loss of over rs 50000 and the chicken shop too incurred heavy loss taking the total losses in this incident to about rs 15 lakh following the incident police have registered a case of accidental fire and launched a probe