The victim was asleep when the plaster fell on her around 6.30 am, killing her on the spot, Thane civic officials said
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A 45-year-old woman died after the plaster of her flat's ceiling fell on her at Ambarnath in Maharashtra's Thane district, civic officials said on Sunday, reported the PTI.
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The incident occurred early on Saturday, they said.
The victim, identified as Geeta Gupta, was asleep when the plaster fell on her around 6.30 am, killing her on the spot. She resided on the third floor of Anna Building near Fatima School, the officials said, according to the PTI.
After being alerted, the fire brigade personnel rushed to the site and pulled out the victim's body from the debris. The body then sent to a government hospital for post-mortem and a case of accidental death was registered by the police, they said.
Meanwhile, in an another incident, an infant and a woman were killed and five others injured when a residential building collapsed in Maharashtra's Thane district shortly after midnight on Sunday, civic officials said, according to the PTI.
The single-storey building having six flats and located on Durga Road in Dhobi Talao area of Bhiwandi town collapsed at 12.35 am, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi told the PTI.
After being alerted, a team of the Thane Disaster Response Force (TDRF) and fire personnel from the Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporation rushed to the spot.
A search operation was carried out in the night and seven persons were pulled out from the debris. An eight-month-old girl and a woman died while five others were injured, the official said, as per the PTI.
The deceased have been identified as Uzma Atif Momin (40) and Taslima Mosar Momin (8 months), he said, reported the PTI.
Among the injured were four women and a man aged 65. They were admitted to a local hospital and were reported to be out of danger, he said.
The search and rescue operation and work to clear the debris was completed at around 3.30 am, the official said, the news agency reported.
It was not yet known how old was the building and whether it was in the list of dangerous structures, he said.
(with PTI inputs)
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