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Four tractors, 5 trailers gutted at village farm; reason unknownTribune News ServiceBathinda, November 11A fire broke out in a paddy residue dump at Jeeda village in the wee hours on Monday. Malkit Singh, contractor of the paddy residue dump, said, “Farmers were sleeping near their tractor-trailers when the fire broke out. Malkit added, “A large volume of paddy residue was stored in the dump. A number of tractors and trailers were gutted in the fire.”Later, police personnel from the Nehianwala police station managed to take away 12 tractor-trailers laden with paddy residue from the dump safely. According to information, the paddy residue stored in the dump was to be transported to a biomass plant at a Faridkot village..