Fire destroys file room at KT district police HQ

Kuala Terengganu police chief says 58 lock-up detainees evacuated from building.

KUALA TERENGGANU: A fire destroyed a room containing documents and old files at the district police headquarters here last night, and forced the evacuation of 58 people held at a lock-up in the building.

Police personnel on duty were alerted to the fire, which occurred at 10.15pm, by the smoke in the air, said Kuala Terengganu police chief Assistant Commissioner Idris Abd Rafar.

The room, on the ground floor of the double-storey building, is usually used by personnel from the Crime Prevention Branch and is located 30 metres from the lock-up.

Idris said the 58 detainees, three of them women, were moved to the Gong Badak police station as electricity supply to the police headquarters has been cut off due to the fire.

“The fire was brought under control quickly and prevented from spreading to an armoury nearby,” he told reporters at the scene.

Terengganu Fire and Rescue Department operations commander Mohd Izwan Hashim said the cause of the fire and damages had yet to be ascertained.

– BERNAMA