KUCHING: A shop selling motorcycles and tyres at Batu Kawa here was destroyed in an early morning fire yesterday with huge losses to the proprietor.
Many tyres and 50 motorcycles were also burnt in the fire which destroyed 70 per cent of the shop.
Members of the public who spotted smoke billowing from the premises at about 1.44am immediately contacted the Fire and Rescue Services Department (Bomba) for assistance.
Firefighters from Batu Litang and Padungan fire stations rushed to the scene where they found raging fire on the ground of the three-storey shop.
They managed to put the fire under control at 2.44am.
The cause of the fire and losses incurred are still being ascertained.
