A portion of a gallery collapsed at a chawl in Maharashtra’s Thane district late Sunday night, briefly trapping 10 residents, officials confirmed on Monday.

The incident occurred around 10:30 pm at the Sanjay Mhatre Chawl in the Diva area. According to Yasin Tadvi, chief of Thane Municipal Corporation’s disaster management cell, a part of the gallery slab on the first floor gave way, leading to panic among the occupants, according to the news agency PTI.