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Bengal Factory Fire
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West Bengal: Major fire breaks out in paint factory

| @indiablooms | Jan 01, 2022, at 09:21 pm

Kolkata/UNI: A major fire on Saturday reduced to ashes a paint factory at Kaikhali near Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International airport here.

Altogether 15 fire tenders, including some from airport, were pressed into service to douse the blaze, which was still raging.

Police said the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.

NDRF team has been deployed to tackle the situation.

Fire Brigade Minister Sujit Bose and Rajarhat Trinamool Congress MLA Aditi Munshi rushed to the spot to oversee the operation.

Workers have been evacuated to safer places.

No casualty has been reported so far.

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