Mumbai: One person died, while another was injured after a wall collapsed here on Friday afternoon, a civic official said.
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The incident took place in a `chawl' (old style tenements) at Chandivali farm in suburban Sakinaka where the wall of a house caved in at around 12.15 pm, said the official of the BMC's Disaster Management Cell.
Mumbai: One died after a wall collapsed in a housing society in Sakinaka, today. More details awaited. pic.twitter.com/4qTKX7Efy5
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"Fire brigade took out two people from the debris of the wall. One of them, Chandrakant Munnappa Shetty (40), was taken to civic-run Rajawadi Hospital, where he was declared brought dead.
"The other victim, Sandeep Kadam (35), was injured and recuperating in a private hospital," the official said.
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The rescue work was still going on, he added. (PTI)
