3 injured after 5th-floor slab crashes onto lower flat in Thane

THANE: Three people were injured after a slab from a fifth-floor flat crashed onto the apartment below in a residential building in Wagle Estate, wee hours of Tuesday.

The incident occurred around 3:07 am at Nutan Neelam Apartment near Hanuman Temple in Shantinagar.

Around 85 to 95 residents staying in the building with 25 flats had to be evacuated and shifted to a nearby municipal school as precautionary while both wings of the apartment were sealed.

"The slab of room 501 on the fifth floor suddenly saved in and fell into the room directly below it in the ground-plus-five-storey building, which is over three decades old. The injured have been identified as Gajendra Prasad (60), who sustained a fracture to his right shoulder; Prince Yadav (25), who suffered a fractured right leg; and Pradeep Yadav (23), who sustained injuries to both legs and other parts of the body. All three were rushed to a civic hospital," informed Yasin Tadvi, in charge at the regional disaster management cell.

Yadav, whose condition turned critical was later shifted to a private hospital in Mumbai for advanced treatment, officials said.

Fire brigade teams, disaster management officials, police personnel and building department authorities rushed to the spot.

"The building was classified under the dangerous C2B category and had to be evacuated as a precaution. Further action will be taken by the civic building department," said Tadvi.