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Thane, Sep 12 (PTI) Two people were killed and another person was injured after the slab of a 25-year-old four-storey residential building collapsed in Maharashtra"s Thane city on Sunday morning, civic officials said.
The slab of a flat on the third floor of "C-wing" of the Khatri Apartments, located in Rabodi area, came crashing down on its ground floor at around 6 am, Thane Municipal Corporation"s (TMC) deputy commissioner Ashok Burpulle said.
After being alerted, a team of local firemen, police and the TMC"s regional disaster management cell (RDMC) rushed to the spot and pulled out three people from the debris, two of whom died in hospital, he said.
The deceased were identified as Rameez Shaikh (32) and Goss Tamboli (38), while the third person was under treatment, an official from the TMC"s disaster control room said.
The Rabodi-based housing complex collectively has 73 flats, Burpulle said, adding that after the incident, occupants of all 24 houses in its C-wing were shifted to a safer place as a precautionary measure.
Following the incident, "the "C-wing" of the 25-year-old building was sealed", the civic body"s RDMC chief Santosh Kadam said.