Mumbai, Jun 19 (PTI) A 55-year-old man was killed after concrete fell from the parapet wall on the terrace of a 17-storey residential building in Mumbai’s Chunabhatti area in the early hours of Friday, officials said.
The incident occurred at Galaxy Apartment in the Qureshi Nagar locality around 12.30 am, they said.
Citing the Mumbai Fire Brigade, a civic official said a chunk of plaster fell from the parapet wall on the terrace of the building and struck a pedestrian.
The man, identified as Abdul Wahab, was rushed to the civic-run Sion hospital in a private vehicle before the arrival of emergency services, the official said. However, doctors at the hospital declared him “brought dead”.
Fire brigade personnel later removed the precariously hanging portion of the parapet wall and cordoned off the area as a precautionary measure, the official added. PTI KK NR
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