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Blast in Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science leaves one researcher dead

| @indiablooms | Dec 05, 2018, at 06:56 pm

Bangalore, Dec 5 (IBNS): A suspected cylinder blast in Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science (IISc) left one scientist dead, media reports said.

The incident which happened in aero-dynamics laboratory left three people injured.

The mishap occurred at around 2.20 pm.

Such was the intensity of the explosion that the four researchers were flung away, one of them 20 feet, the security in charge at IISc told NDTV.

"Around 2.20pm there was an explosion. One engineer was thrown 20 feet and died instantly. The other three were admitted to hospital. It is the first time that something like this has happened in IISc," he told the news channel.

The injured people were taken to hospital for treatment.



 

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