A fire broke out Friday afternoon in a school in Margao close to where electronic voting machines used in the South Goa Lok Sabha election and Shiroda Assembly bypoll were stored.
Lok Sabha polls took place in Goa on April 23.
However, the state's Chief Electoral Office clarified that all the EVMs were safe and said the blaze was doused immediately by Fire and Emergency Services personnel.
"A minor incident was reported in the bio laboratory of the multi-purpose higher secondary school at Margao today, ,which is adjacent to the Government College of Commerce and Economics, where the strongroom for parliamentary constituency South Goa and Assembly constituency Shiroda is located," the CEO statement informed.
The strongroom contained 810 EVMs which were used for polling for the South Goa Lok Sabha seat and the Shiroda Assembly by-election, it said.
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