LAHORE: A fire erupted in the National Bank of Pakistan building on The Mall and burnt discarded files kept there on Wednesday.

Rescue 1122 firefighters extinguished the fire in one hour or so.

According to the rescue spokesper-son, the fire broke out in the bank`s human resource section. The firefighters faced difficulties because there was no window in the building.

He said it took them two hours to completely extinguish the fire and cool off the area.

In another incident, eight railway bogies were gutted down inHarbanspura.

The Rescue 1122 spokesperson said that the bogies were parked at a railway terminal. First, railway workers tried to extinguish the fire but could not do so and alerted the Rescue 1122.

Fire tenders put off the blaze after the ef forts of one hour or so.

He said the bogies might have caught fire due to short circuit.