Varanasi, June 19 -- A massive fire broke out at a pipe storage yard located behind a CNG station in the Babatpur area of Varanasi, officials said.

Several fire tenders rushed to the spot and launched firefighting operations to control the blaze on Friday. The fire has now been brought under control, and no casualties have been reported so far.

According to local eyewitnesses, the fire broke out in a storage yard where plastic pipes were kept behind the CNG gas station. The site reportedly belonged to a GAIL pipe storage facility and was located around 100 metres away from the CNG station under Phulpur police station limits near Karkhiyaon village.

Since the fire involved plastic pipes, it took nearly two hours of continuous firefighti...