Fire at IIT-Madras lab

Fire at IIT-Madras lab

Chennai: A view of the rocket and missiles laboratory building located in the IIT-Madras campus that caught fire, in Chennai on June 5, 2018. (Photo: IANS)

Chennai: A view of the rocket and missiles laboratory building located in the IIT-Madras campus that caught fire, in Chennai on June 5, 2018. (Photo: IANS)

Chennai, June 5 (IANS) A fire broke out at a lab in the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras here on Tuesday but no one was injured, police said.

Police said some workers reported loud explosion like sounds and thick smoke at the rocket and missiles laboratory in the morning hours. The cause of the fire and extent of damage was not known immediately.

--IANS

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