Maharashtra: One killed, five injured at Kolhapur building slab collapse

One person died and six others were injured after a slab came crashing down on them during construction work at an underconstruction fire station of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation in Maharashtras Kolhapur an official said reported news agency ANIThe official added that the fire brigade rescued five people in the Kolhapur building slab collapse incident which took place on Tuesday nightKolhapur Municipal Corporation Chief Fire Officer Manish Ranbise told ANI Today construction work for the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation Fire Department building was underway The slab work was in its final stage But the slab has collapsed Six people including the contractor and the other staff were trapped inside The fire brigade rescued five peopleHowever Additional Superintendent of Police SP Dhiraj Kumar Bachchu confirmed that one person died after the roof of an underconstruction Kolhapur building slab collapsed in the Fulewadi area reported ANI More details are awaited16 electrical meters damaged in fire in Thane buildingIn another incident a fire broke out in the electrical meter box room of a building in Maharashtras Thane city early on Wednesday damaging 16 meters an official said reported PTINo person was injured in the incident Thane Municipal Corporations disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said reported PTIThe blaze erupted on the ground floor of the threestorey Dnyaneshwar Smriti Society in the Dhokali area A total of 16 electric meters were damaged he said reported PTIThe fire control room reported it at 436 am the official said adding the blaze was limited to the electrical metersPersonnel of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company and the fire brigade rushed to the spot and the blaze was extinguished by around 5 am he said reported PTIThe cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained the official saidFour labourers injured in LPG cylinder blastMeanwhile four labourers were injured two of them critically in the blast of an LPG cylinder at a construction site in Ghatkopar area late on Tuesday evening a civic official saidThe incident took place at a temporary shed erected for workers at an underconstruction 7storey building near Vidyaniketan College around 911 pm he said The injured were taken to the nearby Rajawadi hospitalGhanshyam Yadav 36 and Devendra Pal 26 suffered 60 to 70 per cent burns and were in a critical condition while Mahendra Choudhari 32 and Sandeep Pal 20 sustained 10 to 12 per cent and 5 per cent burns respectively and were in a stable condition the official saidThis was the second incident of a gas cylinder blast in the city within a week Last Wednesday seven people including six women were injured in a cylinder blast in Kandivali Six of them all women died during treatmentWith inputs from ANI and PTI