In Pictures: Nilkhet book market fire

The fire broke out at a book shop at 7:43pm and then started engulfing in and around the book market, located just opposite to the New Market, within a moment.

The fire was brought under control at around 8:50pm.

On information, 10 firefighting teams from different fire services stations rushed to the spot to douse the blaze, according to a text message of the Fire Services and Civil Defence headquarters.

Our photographer took these images from the capital.