New Delhi, April 14 -- Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD on Tuesday (local time) said that a fire broke out in a parking garage in Shenzhen Industrial Park this morning, Reuters reported.

In a statement, the carmaker noted that the garage was a parking area for "test and scrapped vehicles" and that the fire had been extinguished. It also added that no casualties had been reported.

BYD's global headquarters is located in the Pingshan district in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

Video footage showed a large fire sending thick black smoke into the sky as flames stretched across a long section of a multi-storey building, with fire trucks and police deployed to the site.

Reuters report citing experts noted that EVs burn differe...