Under-construction house collapses in Thane; no injuries

A singlestorey underconstruction house collapsed in Thane district late Sunday evening civic officials said reported news agency PTINobody was injured in the incident that took place opposite an Urdu school in the Bhiwandi area said Yasin Tadvi chief of the Disaster Management Cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation reported PTIAfter being alerted about the underconstruction house collapse in Thane local firemen reached the spot and cleared the debris he saidThree persons were injured after a wall of a powerloom factory collapsed in Bhiwandi town of Thane district on April 1 morning civic officials saidAs per a PTI report the incident took place around 530 am at the unit which is located in the Navipada area of Subhash Nagar in Bhiwandi The report quoted Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporations chief fire officer Rajesh Pawar saying that eight workers were present at the time of the incidentPawar per the report further said that three workers got trapped under debris while five rushed out to save their lives when the wall collapsedReportedly the local firemen reached the sport after they were alerted of the situation and pulled the three workers out of the debris Among three two were seriously injured and were shifted to a hospital in Thane city while another worker was administered treatment in a local medical facilityThe official told PTI that the debris was completely cleaned by 9 am and that they had initiated a probe into the wall collapse incidentMeanwhile the authorities sunk a barge and dredging equipment in a creek and registered a case against three persons involved in illegal dredging in Maharashtras Thane district police said on Sunday reported PTIBased on a tipoff officials of the revenue department reached the Pimplas Reti Bunder at Bhiwandi on Friday evening and saw the barge and suction pump detained by some villagers an official saidThe equipment was allegedly being used for illegal dredging in the creek he saidThe authorities could not pull out the barge and the suction pump valued at Rs 23 lakh and hence they drowned them in the creek and registered a complaint with the police the official said reported PTIA case under section 379 theft and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Maharashtra Land Revenue Code was registered against Sab Ajgar Sheikh 32 Rafu Bashir Sheikh 25 and Kalu Minazar Sheikh 19With inputs from PTI