A fire broke out at the state-run Sambhunath Pandit Hospital here today, the second such incident in a medical facility in the state in three days.
No one was injured in the incident, the police said.
The fire at Sambhunath Pandit Hospital in the heart of the city's southern part broke out in its library in the second floor of a building at the facility at 11.48 AM, fire brigade officials said.
Six fire tenders were pressed into service and the fire was brought under control within 15 minutes, the officials said.
A major fire and a stampede had occurred in state-run Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital on Saturday which claimed two lives and left seven others injured.
The West Bengal government had ordered a CID probe into the cause of the blaze and the stampede at Mursidabad.
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