Official source at Dimapur today said the blaze, believed to have erupted from the kitchen of a family yesterday, quickly engulfed all the thatched houses of the Khan Basti, which extends upto Karbi Anglong district of Assam.
The area also borders the LRC Colony and Island Colony of Dimapur town and trigerred panic on the Nagaland side that the fire could affect these colonies too.
Most of the families of Khan Basti were of non-local people, who earned their livelihood in Dimapur. As there was no immediate help of fire service from the Assam side, fire tenders from Dimapur rushed to the spot and doused the blaze in an hour.
No casualty was reported so far in the incident, the sources said.