03 July,2026 03:10 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
The incident took place near the STP Plant Gate in Kanhaiya Nagar, officials said. Pic/RDMC
A truck transporting oxygen cylinders was damaged after a tree fell on it amid rains in Kopri area of Thane district in Maharahshtra, on Friday, officials said.
No injuries were reported in the incident, they said.
The incident took place near the STP Plant Gate in Kanhaiya Nagar.
The Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) received information about the incident at around 11.20 am.
According to officials, the fallen tree landed on a truck bearing registration number MH 04 JK 7158, which was transporting oxygen cylinders.
The identity of the truck owner was not immediately known.
Fire brigade personnel reached the spot with one fire engine and began clearance work.
The team cut the fallen tree and removed it from the truck, bringing the situation under control.
Officials said that no one was injured in the incident. Further details about the extent of damage to the truck were not immediately available.
In an another incident, a tree fell on a parked bus in Naupada area early on Thursday morning, damaging the vehicle but causing no injuries, according to the Thane Municipal Corporation's Disaster Management Cell.
The incident was reported to the civic authorities at 5:40 am on July 2. It took place near the Gurudwara, opposite Kopri Bridge, on the service road in Bhaskar Colony, Naupada, Thane (West).
Personnel from the Thane Municipal Corporation's Disaster Management Cell reached the spot with a pickup vehicle to carry out the necessary response and clearance operations. Fire Brigade personnel also responded to the incident and were deployed with one fire engine to assist in the operation.
Meanwhile, the BMC on Wednesday constituted a two-member committee to conduct a thorough probe into the incident, in which a tree collapsed on a school bus, killing a student, and suspended an assistant garden superintendent for alleged negligence.
BMC Commissioner Ashwini Bhide directed Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Special Engineering) Purushottam Malavade and Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Engineering) Shashank Bhore to conduct a detailed probe and submit a report within eight days.
The committee has also been asked to seek the opinion of experts and recommend measures to prevent recurrence of such incidents, the civic body said in a release.
On Tuesday, an 11-year-old student died and four others were injured when a peepal tree uprooted and collapsed on their moving school bus that was ferrying 13 students near Diamond Garden in suburban Chembur (West).
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said that the uprooted peepal tree was estimated to be 60 to 70 years old and no official public complaint regarding its condition had been received earlier.
The tree had been surveyed on May 12 this year and was found to be healthy and structurally sound during external inspection. It was also pruned on May 29 as part of the annual pre-monsoon tree maintenance exercise, when it was found to be safe, it said.
