LAB FIRE: Cops doubt victims died even before they had a chance to scream Two days after a fire in a chemistry laboratory claimed the lives of two research students in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, investigating officers said none of the eyewitnesses who saw smoke emanating from the third-floor laboratory in the Modular Laboratory building appeared to have heard any cries for help. This is despite that a fairly large number of witnesses were in adjoining laboratories along the corridor and saw flames and smoke billowing out after an explosion.