Sanjeevaiah Park trees on fire from burning garbage

Hyderabad: Even as TRS leaders and workers, along with staff and officials from every department, took part in extensive tree planting programmes to mark Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s birthday, a fire burning since Sunday evening at a garbage collection point near Sanjeevaiah park resul-ted in some trees catching fire.

The trees continued to burn till Monday evening, adding to the smoke from the garbage heap. Smoke from the fire at the dump could also be seen wafting over a large private hospital on Minister’s Road. The fire was sought to be put out by the fire department.