No casualties in massive fire at Surabaya retail icon


Smoke and flames engulf building 5 of the Tunjungan Plaza retail complex in Surabaya, East Java, on the evening of April 13. - Antara

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): Fire broke out on Wednesday (April 13)evening at Tunjungan Plaza, a retail complex located on Jl. Embong Malang in Surabaya, East Java, in one of the worst incidents in the retail icon’s recent history.

The Surabaya 112 Command Center, the city’s emergency response service, said it had deployed a joint response unit involving personnel from the Surabaya Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), the Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), the fire department and the local police on receiving reports that fire had broken out at one of the plaza’s six malls.

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