Fire at India’s international airport in Kolkata briefly prompts evacuation; no injuries reported.
NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire at India’s major eastern airport hub in Kolkata filled the departure lounge with smoke late Wednesday and prompted a brief evacuation of travelers, the airport authority said. There were no injuries, and the fire’s cause was under investigation.
The minor fire was extinguished within a half-hour and normal operations were expected to resume quickly, the Kolkata airport authority said in a tweet. Television images from earlier in the day showed the fire leaping out from a portion of the airport’s departure terminal.
Kolkata’s Netaji Subhash Chandra International Airport is the largest hub for air traffic in eastern India.
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