A fire broke out in the laboratory of a school near Ullal in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka on Monday while students were taking the SSLC examination in an adjacent room, police sources said.
Teachers immediately shifted the students to a nearby building and ensured that the examination was not interrupted, they said.
Fire service personnel rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire, they said.
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