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Raigad Superintendant of Police Somnath Gharge said that rescue operations have been completed in the incident which took place around 4 am on the old Mumbai-Pune highway.
Raigad Superintendant of Police Somnath Gharge said that rescue operations have been completed in the incident which took place around 4 am on the old Mumbai-Pune highway.
Visuals from the site show the bus falling into a ditch, and window and the roof of the ill-fated vehicle was completely damaged in the accident.
Raigad Police has announced a red alert in the entire district and has imposed nakabandi at prime locations after boat with AK-47 found at Harihareshwar beach.
The five-storied Tarek Garden building at Kajalpura in Mahad -- which is around 170 km from Mumbai -- collapsed around at 7 pm on Monday.
Three teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and 12 teams of the fire brigade are at the spot carrying out search and rescue operations. Canine squads have also been deployed at the scene of the collapse.
The impact of the blast was so severe that the bodies of the two victims were blown to bits, and several homes in the vicinity were shaken.
Thackeray said that priority is being given to restore power and tele-communication lines besides repairing the damaged houses of people.
One man was killed in Umte Village when he was hit by an electric pole uprooted by the force of the gales lashing the region, informed Raigad Collector Nidhi Choudhari.
Union Minister for Heavy Industries Anant Geete and a security official sustained minor injuries in a road accident while on…
