Thick black smoke engulfed the entire College Street campus of the University after fire broke out at around 1.30PM inside the server room of the library probablydue to an electrical botch-up in the air conditioning machine, a senior police officer said.
A student suffered minor injuries when he along with others fell down while trying to flee fearing the blaze was a massive fire, the officer said.
Five fire tenders were pressed into service and students as well as teachers were evacuated from the century-old building, he said.
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