Mahakumbh Fire: On Sunday (January 19), a fire broke out in the straw of a camp in Sector 19 of Mahakumbh fair, spread rapidly due to a gas cylinder explosion and about 18 camps were burnt in the fire. However, the fire brigade personnel completely controlled the fire and there is no report of any casualty. Meanwhile, some facts have been given by the UP government regarding this fire, in which the reason for the fire has been told.

According to the press note issued by the UP government, on Sunday (January 19), in the Maha Kumbh Mela area, between Sector No. 19 old railway bridge and new railway bridge, under the police station Kotwali Ghunsi, near the camp of Karpatri ji, at around 16.10 pm, on receiving information about the fire in the kitchen of the camp of Geeta Press Gorakhpur, the fire was extinguished by the fire service with the help of local Kalpvaasis and police at around 17.00 pm.

In this press note it was told that the fire was caused due to leakage of a small cylinder while making tea in the kitchen of Geeta Press. Due to the fire, about 2 gas cylinders kept in the kitchen exploded and 40 thatched huts and 6 tents of Shri Sanjeev Prayagwal were burnt. During this fire, Jaspreet's leg got hurt while running away and he got injured and became unconscious.

When Jaspreet became unconscious, he was brought to the Central Hospital under Mahakumela through an ambulance for treatment. After first aid, Jaspreet was sent to Swarooprani Medical College Prayagraj for further treatment. The doctors are saying that the injured person is out of danger. Due to the fire, the items of daily use kept in the tent like bed, cot, blanket, chair, table etc. got burnt and destroyed.

Krishna Kumar Khemka, a trustee of Gita Press, said, "There were about 180 cottages, we built them very carefully. Everyone was forbidden to do anything related to fire. The area beyond where we built the boundary was declared as a circulatory area. I don't know to whom the administration gave that place, some fire object came from that side towards us and the fire spread, nothing was left of us, everything was destroyed. Our kitchen was a tin shed, it was concrete."