Man injured as part of ceiling collapses in Thane building

Officials on Wednesday said that an elderly man was injured after the slab of a ceiling in a threestorey residential building collapsed in Maharashtras Thane district reported news agency PTIThe incident took place on Tuesday night at Aatam Prakash Apartment in Ulhasnagar area they said reported PTIA portion of the halls ceiling in a house on the third floor suddenly collapsed and came crashing down on the second floor Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporations assistant commissioner and spokesperson Ajay Sable saidA 60yearold man Rajkumar Duseja who was residing in a flat on the second floor of the Thane building got trapped beneath the debris he saidAfter being alerted fire personnel and the civic staff rushed to the site and rescued the man from the rubble He was rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment the official said reported PTIThe Ulhasnagar civic body has placed the Thane building under observation to assess the extent of structural damage and to prevent any further incidents he said reported PTIA detailed inspection by engineers and civic officials will be conducted to determine the safety of the structure the official saidThree workers killed as storage unit for pulses fall on them at mill in YavatmalIn another incident three workers were killed and two others injured when a steel storage unit for pulses fell on them while they were working at a mill in Maharashtras Yavatmal district police said on Wednesday reported PTIThe incident took place at Manorma Jain Dal Mill located in the MIDC Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation area in Yavatmal on Tuesday evening they said The storage unit broke and fell on five workers a police official said reported PTIThree workers were killed in the incident Two other workers suffered injuries and were undergoing treatment in a hospital the official saidTwo of the deceased were from Madhya Pradesh and one hailed from Wardha district in Maharashtra the police saidPart of protective wall around Thane lake collapses no one hurt two vehicles damagedMeanwhile a portion of a protective wall around a lake in Thane collapsed on April 11 causing damage to two vehicles though no one was hurt a civic official saidThe incident took place at 630 am Thane Municipal Corporationsdisaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi saidA part of the wall 20 feet in length and 8 feet in height collapsed damaging a twowheeler and an autorickshaw The area has been barricaded as a precautionary measure The PWD is inspecting the site further he saidWith inputs from PTIatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params