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Coleraine: Restaurants evacuated after Riverside Regional Centre fire Coleraine: Yoko Bistro and Noodle Bar destroyed in fire
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A number of restaurants and shops have been evacuated because of a fire in County Londonderry. A restaurant has been destroyed by a fire in County Londonderry.
It started in the Yoko Bistro and Noodle Bar at the Riverside Regional Centre in Coleraine. Couples out celebrating Valentine's night had to leave the restaurant when the fire broke out at around 18:30 GMT in the Yoko Bistro and Noodle Bar in Coleraine.
Six fire appliances and the emergency services are at the scene. A number of other shops and restaurants were also evacuated at the Riverside Regional Centre.
Trevor Clarke, a Democratic Unionist Party councillor in Coleraine, was in the area and said the building was destroyed but that no-one had been injured. Six fire appliances and the emergency services were at the scene, but no-one is believed to have been injured.
There are no more details at present. The fire is thought to have started in the restaurant's kitchen, and firefighters battled for hours to bring it under control.
Syed Amin, owner of the adjoining Indus Valley restaurant, said: "We were quite busy, we had a lot of bookings tonight.
"One customer popped in and told me there was a fire next door.
"We thought it was just a small, minor fire, but when I went out it was clearly a big fire.
"Then I had to evacuate my customers, I had to tell them we had to leave.
"It happened so quickly and the wind was blowing the smoke into my restaurant."