Police said a burning candle caused fire inside a rented room at Chabahil on Tuesday evening.
The fire broke out inside a hired room of the three-storey house opposite to Everest Bank on the way between Chabahil and Chuchhepati while the city is being illuminated by the lights paying homage to lord Laxmi( goddess of wealth and prosperity).
Preliminary investigation says the cause of the fire was a candle.
Scores of burning candles are used for interior and exterior decorations during Tihar nights.
Two fire engines were used to douse the inferno, said assistant sub-inspector of Police Prabhakar Pudasaini talking to THT Online.
The renter’s name and the damage caused by the blaze is yet to be ascertained.
Only yesterday, a huge fire gutted Club 99 dance bar in the lakeside of Pokhara to ashes, destroying physical materials worth 50 lakh.-Thehimalayantimes