Over 170 Cars Gutted In Chennai Fire

Vehicles belonged to defunct call taxi company and were parked in open ground.

A day after close to 300 cars were gutted at the Aero India 2019 show in Bengaluru, over 170 cars belonging to `UToo', a defunct call taxi company, parked in an open ground at Porur in Chennai, were destroyed in a fire that broke out on Sunday afternoon.

The situation was brought under control by 4 p.m. and a case was registered at the Porur police station.

Preliminary investigations reveal that it may have been an accidental fire.

However, the police are not ruling out the possibility of miscreants setting fire to the dry grass in the ground.