02 June,2024 04:54 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
The collapsed wall. Pic/RDMC
A portion of the protection wall of a college building collapsed during demolition in Maharashtra's Thane city on Sunday, an official said, the PTI reported.
No one was injured in the incident, the official said.
The incident occurred in the Pimpalpada area, where a nursing college and a women's hostel were being razed, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the civic disaster management cell.
A part of the protection wall of the college building collapsed on the hostel, he said.
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Local firemen and the RDMC team reached the scene to clear the debris, the official said.
Fire breaks out in Byculla high-rise, one injured
Meanwhile, in an another incident in Mumbai, a 57-year-old man was injured while 25 to 30 persons were rescued after a fire broke out in a 62-storey residential building in south Mumbai's Byculla area around midnight, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Sunday.
The blaze erupted in a flat on the 10th floor of the Monte South building's A wing in the Khatao Mill Compound in Byculla at 11.42 pm on Saturday, the civic body said, adding smoke filled the entire floor.
Some persons were stranded on the upper floors of the building.
The officials said 25 to 30 persons were rescued through the staircase.
A man, identified as Pandurang Shinde, was injured, the BMC said.
It was a "level-2" blaze which was confined to the electric wiring and installations, wooden furniture, household articles, wardrobe, mattresses, wooden beds, sofas, curtains, electronic appliances, false ceilings, doors, windows and modular kitchen of the 10th floor flat and curtains, window glass, etc of an apartment on the 11th floor, the official said.
Eight water tankers and six fire engines were rushed to the spot, the official said, adding that four hose lines and nine motor pumps were in operation.
The blaze was extinguished at 2.45 am, he said.
While firefighting, an explosion of a refrigerator compressor occurred in the kitchen of the 10th floor flat, he said.
The cause of the fire was not yet known. There were reports that the blaze erupted after suspected short-circuit in one of the flats on the 10th floor of the tower.
(with PTI inputs)
