thiruvananthapuram a bike rental shop at kallummoodu near muttathara which was supposed to be inaugurated next week caught fire on sunday according to a staff of the shop 31 newlypurchased bikes and all the office accessories were guttedthe bikes were purchased at a cost of rs 50 lakh and the office accessories cost rs 10 lakh in total we incurred a loss of over rs 60 lakh in the fire said prem sankar a staff of the shop a month ago evm motors in kochi had hired the space in the ground floor of a threestorey building here to run a bike rental business the other floors in the building were vacant the cause of the fire will be known only after a forensic analysisthe fire occurred in the wee hours on sunday by seeing fumes coming out of the building pedestrians informed the police and fire and rescue services four fire units reached the spot immediately and brought the fire under control in an hourpolice have registered a case for fire occurrence and started a preliminary investigation