A violent fire totally destroyed a children amusement center underneath Myanmar's world famous Shwedagon Pagoda Sunday evening.

Security police told Xinhua that the fire, which occurred at the Happy World Children Amusement Center in the Kandawmin Park opposite to the southern gate of the pagoda, resulted from an electric short circuit at a ghost train rail track riding by children.

The fire broke out at 5:20 p.m. local times (1150 GMT) and lasted for about two hours until it died down.

Fire brigade officers said the fire injured some people and destroyed property worth of 10 million Kyats ( about 10,000 U.S. dollars). Other casualties are unknown.

The fire came one and a half month after a major three-hour fire destroyed about 1,000 houses in a densely-populated slum quarter in Hlaing township in Yangon on November 28 of last year, about 10 kilometers to the north from downtown Yangon, where most of the houses were made of wood.

That fire left about 5,000 people homeless.

Source: Xinhua