<p>A five-year-old girl was killed and three of her family members suffered injuries after a chunk of ceiling plaster collapsed on them in their house in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/exclusive-thane-buildings-must-not-switch-off-exhaust-systems-overnight-23396258" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Maharashtra's Thane district</strong></a>, the officials said, reported the PTI.</p>
<p>The incident took place at a flat in a 30-year-old building in Thane on Sunday, an official said.</p>
<p>The accident occurred around 8 am in their ground floor home at the 6-storey Jeevan Baug building in the Mumbra area, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the Disaster Management Cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), according to the PTI.</p>
<p>The victims were in their kitchen when a large piece of concrete fell on them, he said.<br />Uneja Sheikh (5), Umar Sheikh (23), Muskan Sheikh (21) and one-year-old Izan Sheikh sustained injuries. They were rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared Uneja dead.</p>
<p>The others are being treated, he said.</p>
<p>The three-decade-old building has 20 apartments and six shops. It has been classified as a dangerous building (C2B category) and had been issued a notice to carry out repairs.</p>
<p>The building was evacuated and sealed after the accident, said Tadvi.</p>
<p>In an another incident, three persons travelling in a car had a narrow escape when their vehicle caught fire on the Eastern Express Highway in Maharashtra's Thane city, civic officials said on Sunday.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/mumbai-traffic-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Traffic</strong></a> on the busy highway was affected for some time after the incident which took place at 11.15 pm on Saturday, they said.</p>
<p>The three persons were travelling to Mumbra in Thane district from Govandi in neighbouring Mumbai, Yasin Tadvi said.</p>
<p>The car suddenly caught fire when it was near a temple on the Eastern Express Highway at Teen Hath Naka here. Its occupants immediately jumped out to save their lives, he said.</p>
<p>No one was injured in the blaze which completely gutted the car, the official said.</p>
<p>After being alerted, local fire personnel and the regional disaster management cell team rushed to the spot. The fire was put out after about half-an-hour, he said.</p>
<p>A probe was on to ascertain the cause of the fire, he added.</p>
<p>(with PTI inputs)</p><p>
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