A fire broke out in a Malaysian shopping mall and filled a theatre running a Bollywood film there with thick smoke, triggering panic among hundreds of moviegoers who fled the cinema complex situated near the world famous Petronas Towers.
About 800 people rushed out of the Tanjong Golden Village theatre on the third floor of the Suria KLCC mall attached to the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur shortly before midnight Friday.
No casualties were reported.
The movieplex regulary screens Hindi and Tamil films, besides Hollywood blockbusters.
"Thick smoke began filtering inside the theatre when the movie Garam Masala had just begun," Minati Panda, who had gone for the late night show with her husband, said.
"Children and adults were rushing out in panic as smoke filled the theatres, thank God there was no stampede," she said.
The fire apparently started in a stairway landing outside a restaurant on the first level of the Suria KLCC, but its cause was not immediately known, according to a fire service official.
Fire tenders reached the spot 20 minutes after the fire broke out.
The 88-floor Petronas Twin Towers was once the world's tallest skyscraper before being pushed back to second spot by a building in Taiwan.
