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Fire brokes out in a UCO bank’s branch in Bengaluru downtown, no injuries

| @indiablooms | Sep 18, 2019, at 06:00 pm

Bengaluru, Sep 18 (UNI) There was a flutter as bank customers and employers after a fire was noticed in UCO bank’s branch in downtown Mahatma Gandhi Road in the city on Wednesday afternoon and no one was hurt in the incident.

At least four tenders was rushed to the six-storied building on the busy thoroughfare and the fire was put out quickly. It was likely that the fire was caused due to a electric short circuit, a Fire Brigade official said.

All the employees as well as the bank’s customers who were remained in the bank, when the fire broke out, were evacuated safely, the sources said.

The fire however, affected some portion of the Lift as well as the place near entrance of the bank. 

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