A portion of the protection wall of a housing society collapsed in Maharashtra's <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/mumbai-two-held-for-racing-motorbikes-on-western-express-highway-stolen-bikes-seized-23301314" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Thane city</a> in the wee hours of Wednesday, civic officials told news agency PTI.
No one was injured in the incident which took place at the housing society located in Panchpakhadi area, <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/thane-fire-breaks-out-at-fabric-dyeing-unit-in-bhiwandi-no-injuries-reported-23301231" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Thane Municipal Corporation's</a> disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi told PTI.
The 10x8 feet portion of the nine-year-old compound wall collapsed at around 1 am on Wednesday, he said, adding the remaining portion of the protection wall was in a precarious state.
After being alerted, local firemen and the disaster management cell team rushed to the spot and carried out work to clear the debris, the official told PTI.
The area around damaged portion of the wall has been cordoned-off, he said.
Earlier, the compound wall of a residential building collapsed in Thane city of Maharashtra on July 30, but nobody was injured in the incident, civic officials told PTI.
The incident occurred in B Cabin locality of Naupada around 4 pm, Yasin Tadvi, chief of the Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) of the Thane civic body, told PTI.
"The work of cutting trees was in progress in the building when its compound wall - which was around 15-feet long - collapsed. After being alerted, the local fire brigade personnel and the RDMC rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area," he told PTI.
Meanwhile, the body of a 37-year-old man who fell into a flooded drain in Maharashtra's Thane district has been found after six days, an official told PTI on Wednesday.
The man, identified as Ramesh Teki, from Mahatma Phule Nagar, along with his friends went to the swollen drain at Kharigaon near Kalwa for fishing on July 27, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi told PTI.
He then accidentally fell into the water body and got swept away, the official said.
Local firemen and disaster management cell personnel carried out a search for three days, but the victim was not traced.
At around 2 pm on Tuesday, a highly decomposed body was found in the drain connecting to Kalwa creek and sent for postmortem, the official said.
The deceased was identified during the autopsy, he added.
(With inputs from PTI)
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