Thane: Three members of a Suryawanshi family were injured when a slab of their flat ceiling collapsed at Naupada area in Thane on Monday said a officials from regional disaster management cell (RDMC), Thane.
Avinash Sawant, RDMC chief, Thane said, "We received an information at around 11 am about the collapse of slab of the flat of Suryawanshi family on the first floor of a seven-storey Amar Tower at Bhaskar Colony in Naupada area in Thane on Monday. Soon after receiving the message the disaster management cell team along with local firemen and teams of Thane Disaster Response Force (TDRF) rushed to the spot with one pick-up vehicle, one TDRF bus and one fire tender vehicle."
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Three injured, two rescued from spot
Sawant further added, "The disaster management cell team along with TDRF and fire brigade personnel removed three persons from the spot. They have been identified as Prathamesh Suryawanshi (28), Vijya Suryawanshi (54) and Atharva Suryawanshi (14). They were sent at the Paradkar hospital at Bhaskar Colony in Thane. All three have received injuries on head, neck and hand and they are undergoing treatment at Paradkar hospital."
"The team also safely rescued two persons named Kumari Priyanka Suryawanshi (24) a woman who was trapped in the flat whose ceiling slab collapsed and Shishir Pitare (60) from flat no 203" informed Sawant.
The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) and RDMC officials inspected the building and found that a flat located on the ground floor too have developed cracks. The TMC officials were in the process to evacuate the entire 25-year-old building which has total 32 flats.
