Thane: Portion of chawl's gallery collapses in Manpada amidst heavy rainfall

Some portion of a gallery of a chawl at Manpada in Maharashtras Thane city collapsed following heavy rains but nobody was injured in it civic officials told news agency PTI on FridayThe incident occurred around 11 pm on Thursday chief of the Thane Municipal Corporations Regional Disaster Management Cell RDMC Yasin Tadvi told PTIAfter being alerted the personnel of the local fire brigade unit and the RDMC rushed to the spot he saidThe chawl is around 40 years old Ten to twenty feet of the gallery portion caved in and its remaining part is in a precarious condition Tadvi told PTIThe occupants of the tenement were evacuated and accommodated in an adjacent chawl as a temporary measure he saidThe civic body officials will take a decision on the tenement after examining it Tadvi told PTIMeanwhile a 65yearold woman was injured when the ceiling plaster of a hospital in Kalwa in Thane district fell on her an official told PTI on ThursdayThe incident took place on Wednesday evening in a hospital in Manisha Nagar and the woman who was part of the facilitys housekeeping team was treated there itself TMC district disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi told PTIA civic team visited the site to find out about the structural details of the hospital he addedIn another incident a 22yearold worker died after an iron rod fell on him at a construction site and pierced through his body in Maharashtras Thane district police told PTI on ThursdayThe incident took place on July 1 in Badlapur area and the police on Wednesday registered a case against an unnamed contractor under Indian Penal Code Section 304A causing death by negligence an official from Badlapur police station told PTIThe victim was working at the construction site where some workers were lifting iron rods from a duct to upper floors he saidOne of the rods accidentally fell on the victim and pierced through his body The other workers present there pulled out the rod and rushed the victim to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead the official saidThe police initially registered a case of accidental death but after receiving the autopsy report converted it into a case against the contractor of causing death by negligence he saidThe police told PTI that the contractor had not provided personal protective equipment PPEs to the workers and not taken any precaution for their safety leading to the accident and death of the workerNo one has been arrested so far the official said adding a probe was underway into the caseWith inputs from PTI