<p>The police said that a man lost both his legs and his wife and daughter were also injured after a reactor at a company nearby exploded and a metal piece from it fell on their house in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/thane-labourer-electrocuted-at-a-construction-site-in-bhiwandi-23371593" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Maharashtra's Thane district</a> on Monday, reported news agency PTI.</p>
<p>They said the Thane reactor blast took place at around 4.30 am.</p>
<p>There was a blast in the receiver tank of the reactor at the pharmaceutical company located at Kharvai village in the Badlapur MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation), chief fire officer of the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/thane-hoarding-collapse-causes-minor-damage-to-vehicles-in-kalyan-23371107" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Kulgaon-Badlapur fire station</a>, Bhagwat Sonawane, said while sharing updates on Thane reactor blast, reported PTI.</p>
<p>He also said there was a subsequent fire in the reactor unit.</p>
<p>After being alerted, local fire personnel rushed to the spot and put out the blaze, the official said.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/thane-three-cars-crushed-as-hoarding-collapses-in-kalyan-23370877" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">metal piece</a> from the blast site blew 300 to 400 metres away and fell on a house at a chawl (row tenement) in the village, injuring the occupants, the official said, reported PTI.</p>
<p>The victims were asleep when the metal piece fell on their house, pierced through the roof and fell on them with a high impact, he said.</p>
<p>A man staying in the house suffered severe injuries on his both legs and they had to be later amputated at a local hospital, a police official said, reported PTI.</p>
<p>His daughter too suffered leg injuries and his wife was also hurt. Both of them were treated in a local hospital, the police said, reported PTI.</p>
<p>The man was later shifted to the government-run JJ Hospital in neighbouring Mumbai for further treatment, <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/motorist-dies-after-bike-and-tempo-collide-in-thanes-majiwada-area-23370829" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Badlapur East</a> senior police inspector Sukhada R Shitole-Shinde said, reported PTI.</p>
<p>Police were conducting a probe into the incident, she added.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, around 70 residents of a five-storied building in Koparkhairne in Navi Mumbai were evacuated late Saturday night after the gallery slab collapsed, an official said, reported PTI.</p>
<p>Two of the families were shifted to a relief camp, while others are being provided alternate accommodation, he said, reported PTI.</p>
<p>No one was injured in the incident, the official said, adding fire brigade personnel cleared the debris.</p>
<p><strong>(With inputs from PTI)</strong></p><p>
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