Building damaged due to dust storm in Thane; residents evacuated

An official on Saturday said that an unauthorised highrise building was damaged and some residents were evacuated after a dust storm swept through Maharashtras Thane city reported news agency PTIThere were reports of no injuries in the incident that occurred in the Mumbra area on Friday afternoon said Yasin Tadvi chief of the disaster management cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation TMC reported PTIHe said strong winds caused cracks in the walls of two terracelevel rooms in an unauthorised sevenstorey structure in Thakur PadaPersonnel from the fire brigade disaster management cell and staff from the encroachment department rushed to the spot with a rescue vehicle and removed the damaged portions preventing a collapse Tadvi said reported PTIAs a precautionary measure six residential units were evacuated and sealed the civic body said in a releaseThe dust storm caused five incidents of tree falls across the city and multiple vehicles were damaged it statedRioting case filed as group indulges in violence after womans death caused by excavatorIn another case police have registered a case against some unidentified persons for allegedly rioting and damaging dumpers following the death of a woman after she got stuck in an excavator during garbage segregation work in Maharashtras Thane recently officials said reported PTIThe driver of the excavator was also booked for causing the womans death they saidThe woman died on March 31 at the garbage segregation centre at C P Talao in the cityThe tragedy occurred when around 50 women were segregating waste in a prohibited area of the transfer station Rajashri Jadhav who was one of the women was hit by a dumper vehicle due to which she got stuck in an excavator an official from the Wagle Estate police station said reported PTIThe operator of the heavyduty machine allegedly picked her body with the excavator bucket and threw it into the dumper resulting in fatal injuries to her The death of the woman triggered outrage among those present at the site he saidA group of around eight unidentified persons hurled stones at dumpers and spraying machines at the waste segregation facility A total of 14 dumpers were damaged in the violence he addedBased on a complaint filed by a sanitary inspector from Thane Municipal Corporation TMC an FIR was registered on April 2 under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita BNS including 1892 unlawful assembly 190 common object of unlawful assembly 1911 2 rioting and others Sections of the Prevention of Destruction and Loss of Property Act were also invoked he said reported PTIA case was also registered against the excavator driver Mohammad Sanaullah Farooque under section 106 causing death by negligence of the BNS at the Shrinagar police station in connection with the womans deathWith inputs from PTI