A person was injured after falling right into a roadside drain, when the concrete slab collapsed in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur on Wednesday.
A video of the incident reveals the person alighting from a scooter and taking two bakery bins from the two-wheeler and strolling away. Nevertheless, as he takes a few steps ahead whereas carrying the 2 bins, the drain cowl beneath him offers manner and collapses, resulting in the person falling into the drain.
Following the incident, his fellow rider and others close by rush to assist him out of the drain. The person didn’t maintain any main accidents.
Following the incident, the drain was cordoned off with massive stones to keep away from some other accident on the spot, StringReveals reported.
The incident comes amid heavy rains in Maharashtra, with the climate division issuing warnings for the downpour, which has been persevering with for the previous six days.
Man dies after falling into water-filled quarry
A person died after falling right into a water-filled quarry in Maharashtra’s Thane district, which has obtained incessant rains, officers stated on Wednesday. The person, recognized as Aditya Singh, fell into the quarry round midnight at Rabale in Thane district’s Navi Mumbai township.
In the meantime, the Runde bridge in Kalyan space confronted closure after being inundated as floodwaters rose, PTI quoted officers as saying. “The motion on the bridge has been stopped and automobiles are being diverted through Khadavli-Utarne route,” PTI quoted tehsildar Sachin Shejal as saying.
The neighbouring Palghar district additionally obtained in a single day rainfall, resulting in flooding within the low-lying areas and disrupting visitors motion in a number of areas.
Authorities had Tuesday rescued 194 individuals trapped within the low-lying inundates areas in Vasai taluka in Palghar utilizing boats and tropes. Rescue groups, together with NDRF personnel, additionally relocated a number of residents of those areas to safer locations and non permanent shelters, catastrophe administration cell chief Vivekanand Kadam stated.
