India, April 14 -- A massive fire broke out on an empty plot opposite Mayfield Gardens' C-Block in Sector 67 on Monday, making thick smoke visible from several kilometres away and damaging multiple units, officials and residents said. No injuries were reported.

The fire erupted around 11.15am from a large heap of household belongings, including LPG cylinders, stored outside a slum area on the land parcel. Officials said the flames spread to an adjacent residential building in Block-C.While officials of Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran said the land was taken over by the authority last year and is under its maintenance, a local present at the site claimed that it is owned by members of his family.

MC Sharma, fire station officer at Secto...