Maharashtra: Wall of Thane electricity transformer cabin collapses, no one hurt

A civic official said that the wall of a cabin housing an MSEDCL transformer collapsed on Monday in Thane though no one was hurt in the incident reported news agency PTIThe incident of Thane electricity transformer cabin wall collapse took place at Chandiwala Complex in Chandanwadi at 3 pm said Thane Municipal Corporation regional disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi reported PTIThe 30 feet by 10 feet wall of the Thane electricity transformer cabin collapsed which led to subsidence of a patch around it The debris was cleared by fire brigade and RDMC personnel he added reported PTIIn another incident three persons were killed and two others injured after a fourstorey residential building collapsed in Navi Mumbais CBD Belapur area early on July 27 officials said reported PTIThe two injured persons were pulled out alive from under the rubble after the incident that occurred at 450 am in Shahbaz village they said adding that the scale of the tragedy could have been bigger had 52 other residents of the building not been evacuated in time after cracks were noticed in it in the wee hours reported PTIThe fourstorey building with 13 residential units and three shops collapsed early this morning A man and a woman who were trapped under the rubble were rescued and admitted to a hospital Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation NMMC Commissioner Kailas Shinde said reported PTIThe National Disaster Response Force NDRF and the personnel of the civic bodys fire brigade launched a rescue operation Around noon the body of a man was recovered from under the debris while the bodies of two others were recovered hours later a civic official said reported PTIThe deceased were identified as Mohammad Miraj Altaf Hussain 30 Miraj Saif Ansari 24 and Safique Ahmed Rahmat Ali Ansari 28 Their bodies were sent to a government hospital for postmortem he said reported PTIAccording to the municipal commissioner the collapsed building was 10 years old and a probe will be conducted into the cause of the crashTalking to PTI NMMCs divisional fire officer Purushottam Jadhav said In the wee hours some residents noticed cracks in the building and alerted the authorities about it The fire brigade team reached the spot and evacuated 52 residents including 13 children from the building The structure collapsed some time after that reported PTITwo persons Lal Mohammad 22 and Rukhsana 21 were rescued from under the rubble around 6 am The authorities later learnt that one person was feared trapped under the debris and the rescue teams tried to call him on his mobile but in vain Later on they came to know that two of his friends were also with him at that time he saidA dog squad also assisted the rescue teams the NDRF official saidMeanwhile Chief Minister Eknath Shinde who was in Delhi for Niti Aayogs governing council meeting spoke to the Navi Mumbai municipal commissioner and directed him that necessary assistance be provided to the injured and affected persons an official release by the Thane district administration said reported PTIThe NDRF said final search is being carried out and the work of removing the debris is underwayEarlier this week heavy and incessant rains lashed Mumbai Navi Mumbai Thane Raigad and parts of the Maharashtra capital metropolitan region However the showers have taken a break in the past two daysWith inputs from PTI