KATHMANDU: Property worth Rs 75,000 was gutted as a residential building caught fire in Maharajganj of Kathmandu on Friday.

Room number 405 of the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital doctors' residential building had caught fire today reportedly due to an electronic short circuit.

Valuables including a television set, tables and clothes belonging to Dr Deepak Thakur were reduced to ashes.

Local police are looking into the case.