KOZHIKODE: A fire broke out at a cotton mill in Thiruvannoor in Kozhikode. The cotton debris in the waste trench of the spinning mill caught fire. Three units of firefighters arrived from Meenchana and put out the fire. No one was injured, fire officials said.

The Home Appliances Showroom, which is preparing for its inauguration in Kannur, also caught fire today, completely burning down five shops on the first floor of a building on the National Highway. The fire spread to two nearby locked shops. The lack of objects inside the shops averted a major catastrophe.