Fire breaks out in IISc

Bangalore, Feb 9 (UNI) Over a dozen research students and scientists in the prestigious Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) had a providential escape when a major fire broke out at the Molecular Cell Biology Laboratory barely few minutes after they left for the day here last night.

According to IISc sources the fire broke out at about 2130 hours last night destroying valuable documents and laboratory equipment.

The fire was first noticed by research scholars working in other adjoining laboratories in the IISc complex and immediately alerted the police over the incident.

Six fire tenders struggled for over two hours to extinguish the flames while some of research students helped salvage some of the laboratory equipment.

Initial investigation revealed that electric short circuit might have caused the fire, the sources added.

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