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Fire in Andhra High Court Building, Library Gutted
A fire broke out in the Andhra Pradesh High Court building in Hyderabad at around 1400 hours on Monday. The blaze, in the second floor of the building, was finally extinguished after a five-hour battle waged by nearly a dozen fire-tenders.
The Court library and Advocates’ lockers on the second floor were reportedly destroyed, the cause behind the fire is yet to be ascertained.