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Over 1,300 answer sheets of HSC exam kept in the office of the Block Development Officer in Kaij, Beed district, were reduced to ashes in a fire, the police said. While most of those gutted on Saturday were of three subjects, those of maths and Urdu bore the maximum brunt of the fire, said M V Naik, sub-divisional officer of police, Kaij, adding that the exact cause is being probed.