Eight people were injured in a fire at Ambe Steel’s iron rod manufacturing plant in Bakaspur, Janaki Rural Municipality-5, Banke, on Sunday morning. The blaze broke out at around 5:40 am after an electrical short circuit in three furnaces used to melt iron inside the factory. The injured were taken for treatment, according to reports by Onlinekhabar and Ratopati.
Fire reported in the early morning
The fire began in the factory’s iron-melting section, where three furnaces were involved. The incident was reported in the early morning, at approximately 5:40 am on Sunday. The available information attributes the fire to an electrical short circuit affecting the furnaces.
The plant is located in Bakaspur, in Janaki Rural Municipality-5 of Banke district. The incident took place inside the factory, where the furnaces are used in the manufacture of iron rods. The report identified the affected equipment as three iron-melting furnaces, rather than describing the fire as an incident elsewhere at the facility.
Three furnaces involved
Each of the three furnaces has a capacity of 25 tonnes. Together, the equipment has a stated capacity of 75 tonnes. The reports did not say how much iron was being processed when the fire started or whether the furnaces were operating at full capacity at the time.
The short circuit was reported as the cause of the blaze. No further technical details about how the electrical fault began or how the fire spread inside the factory were provided in the available accounts. The reported information also did not specify whether any other parts of the plant were affected.
Injured taken for treatment
Eight people were injured in the incident and were taken for treatment. The available reports did not provide their names, describe the nature or severity of their injuries, or identify the facilities where they received care. Further details about their condition were not included in the initial information about the fire.
The reports likewise did not state whether production at the plant was interrupted, how long the factory remained affected, or what steps were taken after the fire began. The confirmed details are that the fire broke out at around 5:40 am in three furnaces at the Ambe Steel plant in Bakaspur, that an electrical short circuit was identified as the cause, and that eight people were injured and taken for treatment. No additional information about the fire’s aftermath was available in the reports.
