Mumbai: One person died, while another was injured after a wall collapsed here on Friday afternoon, a civic official said.
The incident took place in a chawl at Chandivali farm in suburban Sakinaka, where the wall of a house caved in at around 12.15 pm, said an official of the BMC’s Disaster Management Cell.
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“Fire brigade took out two people from the debris of the wall. One of them, Chandrakant Munnappa Shetty (40), was taken to civic-run Rajawadi Hospital, where he was declared brought dead. The other victim, Sandeep Kadam (35), was injured and recuperating in a private hospital,” the official said.
The rescue work was still going on, he added.
This is the fourth such incident reported from Maharashtra in a little over a month. Just a few days ago, one person was killed and twenty others were injured when the roof of a bank building collapsed in Solapur district, while twenty-nine people lost their lives in a similar incident in Malad earlier this month. In June, fifteen people died due a wall collapsing in Kondhwa, Pune, following which Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis ordered an in-depth inquiry into the issue.