One killed, another injured in wall collapse in Mumbai

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.

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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)

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