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Two research students burnt to death in BARC fire | Two research students were burnt to death on Tuesday during a fire that broke out in a chemical laboratory in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) at Trombay in Mumbai. There were spectroscopic and
other equipment in the laboratory located on the third floor of the building. "It started
at about 12.15 in the morning when we first saw some flames coming out from the
particular row of a particular lab. And subsequently the fire brigade of BARC came
and they doused the fire in about 45 minutes time. And after the police took over the
investigation to find the cause of the fire accident, they
discovered two dead bodies above the charred tables," said T P Das, Inspector
General of Security Department of BARC. The dead students were later identified
as Umang Singh from Mumbai and Partha Pratim Bag from West Bengal, both PhD
students in BARC's Radiation and Photochemistry Division. Police said that the exact
cause of the accident would be known only after the team of experts submit the
report. BARC officials, however, said that no research involving radioactive material
was being conducted in the multi-storeyed modular building, in which the chemistry
lab was housed. It was also stated that no reactor, radioactivity or radiation
was involved in the accident. BARC has a number of nuclear research reactors and
is one of India's key research centres for both nuclear power and nuclear weapons. |
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