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MADURAI: The students in a private school in Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli city abandoned their books and bags and ran out the school building on Wednesday afternoon when a fire broke out in a classroom due to a suspected electric short circuit.Nobody was injured in the incident happened in Rose Mary School. The collector told reporters that the school records would be perused and action would be taken against the management if there was any fault on their part. The flames were put out in a short time,” he said.“We suspect that the flames could have been triggered by a short circuit in the smart classroom. The fire damaged notebooks, furniture and a few electronic gadgets.The fire broke out around 12.15pm, and a thick smoke emanated from a smart classroom on the second floor of the three-storey building. “Students were evacuated and efforts to fight the flames began immediately..