Thane Mar 21 PTI Four employees of a gas supply agency were seriously injured when a gas cylinder kept in their residential quarters exploded at Kalwa in Thane district of Maharashtra a civic official said on Monday The incident occurred around Sunday midnight said Avinash Sawant who heads the Regional Disaster Management Cell RDMC of the Thane Municipal Corporation TMC The four employees sustained 80-90 burn injuries and were admitted to civic-run Shivaji Hospital at Kalwa he said The residential quarters of the employees are located adjacent to the gas agencys office in the Shiv Shakti Nagar area Fire Brigade personnel and a team of RDMC rushed to the spot at midnight on Sunday and shifted the injured to the hospital Sawant said The injured persons are identified as Satyam Yadav 20 Anuraj Singh 29 Rohit Yadav 20 and Ganesh Gupta 19 The cause of the explosion is under investigation PTI COR NSK NSK

Thane Jan 22 PTI Two boys drowned after they went for a swim in a water-filled pit at a firing range in Maharashtras Thane city on Saturday an official said The incident took place at a firing range in Vartak Nagar area of the city around 330 pm said Santosh Kadam chief of the regional disaster management cell of the Thane Municipal Corporation Cousins Gautam Walmiki 12 and Nirbhay Chouhan 15 had ventured into the pit for a swim when they drowned unable to gauge its depth the official said Teams from the RDMC and fire department rushed to the scene and fished out the bodies following a search operation that lasted two hours he said Gautam was a resident of Shastri Nagar while his cousin Nirbhay had come to the city for a visit from Uttar Pradesh two days ago the official said A case of accidental death has been registered with the Vartak Nagar police station it was stated PTI COR ARU ARU

Thane Jan 18 PTI A 10-year-old boy fell into a well in Nalpada area of Thane city on Tuesday evening and rescue efforts were underway a civic official said Thane Municipal Corporations Regional Disaster Management Cell chief Santosh Kadam told PTI Sahil Jaiswal fell into a well near Ashtavinayak ground at 555 pm after which teams comprising police fire brigade and RDMC personnel arrived at the spot to mount a rescue operation PTI COR BNM BNM BNM

Thane Oct 27 PTI The body of an unidentified man was recovered from Retibunder creek in Mumbra of Maharashtras Thane district on Wednesday a civic official said The body of the victim aged around 16 to 18 years was spotted floating in the creek in the morning and the fire brigade was alerted said Santosh Kadam chief of the Thane Municipal Corporations regional disaster management cell RDMC A team of firemen the RDMC and police rushed to the spot and fished out the body which was later sent for post-mortem he said A case of accidental death has been registered in this regard the official added PTI COR ARU ARU

Thane Oct 26 PTI A fire broke out in a ground-plus-12-storey residential building in Maharashtras Thane city on Tuesday morning civic officials said There was no report of any casualty they said adding that around 15 families were evacuated from the building The blaze erupted around 445 am in a flat on the fifth floor of the building located in Raghunath Nagar Thane Municipal Corporations regional disaster management cell RDMC chief Santosh Kadam said After getting the message firemen a team of the RDMC and local police rushed to the spot The blaze was later doused he said No one was injured in the fire Around 15 families residing in the building were evacuated as a precautionary measure the official said The cause of fire was not yet known he said adding that cooling operations were underway PTI COR GK GK

Thane Oct 21 PTI Two boys aged 13 and 14 went missing after they entered a creek for a swim in Maharashtras Thane district a few days back officials said on Thursday According to police four boys from Mumbra area here went for swimming in the Retibunder creek on Monday evening Later only two of them were seen returning in the CCTV footage of the area they said The Mumbra police received a complaint in the wee hours of Tuesday about the other two boys going missing Thane Municipal Corporations regional disaster management cell RDMC chief Santosh Kadam said Following the complaint teams of local police firemen RDMC and Thane Disaster Response Force carried out a search for the duo in the creek but the boys were yet to be traced he said PTI COR GK GK

Thane Oct 21 PTI Bodies of two unidentified persons were found at different places in Maharashtras Thane district on Thursday morning officials said In the first case the body of a man aged around 35 to 40 years was found floating in a creek in Mumbra area at about 8 am Thane Municipal Corporations regional disaster management cell RDMC chief Santosh Kadam said After being alerted a team of local firemen RDMC and police rushed to the spot The body was fished out and handed over to the Mumbra police who then sent it to a government hospital for postmortem he said In another instance the body of other unidentified man also believed to be aged around 40 was found lying on a road at Shelar Naka in Dombivli town The Dombivli police sent the body for an autopsy a police official said Police in Thane and Dombivli registered cases of accidental death and further investigations were on officials said PTI COR GK GK

Thane Sep 27 PTI An oil tanker hit a road divider and then collided with four vehicles injuring three occupants of a car and disrupting traffic movement on an busy road in Maharashtras Thane city a civic official said on Monday The accident took place around 1030 pm on Sunday near Gaimukh on Ghodbunder Road the citys main arterial road Thane Municipal Corporations regional disaster management cell RDMC chief Santosh Kadam said The tanker driver apparently lost control over the wheels following which the vehicle first crashed into a road divider and then jumped on to the opposite lane where it collided with three cars and a truck he said The impact of the collision was so severe that the tanker drivers cabin got ripped off from the vehicle and came crashing down on the roof one of the cars trapping its occupants the official said After being alerted firemen local police and RDMC teams rushed to the spot They managed to pull out those trapped in the car after about an hour he said Three car occupants aged 18 30 and 45 were injured and admitted to a private hospital in Mira Road area the official said The other vehicles involved in the accident were also badly damaged he said The accident and bad condition of the road resulted in heavy traffic jam in the area he added PTI COR GK GK