Fire broke out in a laboratory on the third floor of the Bose Institute at Raja Bazar in the eastern part of the city this morning.
According to officials at the Fire Department, the fire broke out at the Microbiology laboratory of the Institute on Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road in the Manicktala police station area at around 11.20 AM today from the AC duct.
Three fire-tenders after an hour-long effort managed to douse the flames which destroyed the laboratory completely, they said.
