Thane woman dies of electrocution while fetching water from tank

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A 41-year-old Thane woman has died of electrocution while drawing water from a tank in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Thursday, reported news agency PTI.

The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon at Sabe village in Diva area.

The Thane woman was drawing water from a storage tank of a chawl (row tenements) where she resided and received a severe electric shock and collapsed, an official from Mumbra police station said, reported PTI.

Some persons rushed her to a civic hospital in Kalwa where doctors declared her dead, he said.

The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem, the police said, adding that a case of accidental death has been registered as of now, reported PTI.

When contacted, a spokesperson of a private company supplying power to the area claimed there was possibly a fault in the water pump connection that the woman was using, reported PTI.

Due to scarcity, many people have been using pumps to fetch water and they do not follow the safety regulations, the official said.

In another incident, the bodies of five out of the six persons, who drowned after their boat capsized in the Ujani dam backwaters in Maharashtra's Pune district, were fished out on Thursday morning, police said, reported PTI.

The incident took place on Tuesday evening following strong winds and rains when the boat was sailing from Kugav to Kalashi village, officials earlier said.

"We have fished out five bodies so far - of two men, a woman and two children. A team of the National Disaster Response Force and local administration are working to trace the sixth missing person," an official from Indapur police station said, reported PTI.

Following strong winds and rains on Tuesday evening, the boat carrying seven persons capsized, an official earlier said, reported PTI.

An officer of the assistant police inspector-rank, who was among the seven persons on the boat, swam to safety, he said.

(With inputs from PTI)