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A 13-year-old lad was killed, portion 11 children were injured, aft a conception of the factual ceiling collapsed onto a backstage tutoring people successful Navi Mumbai’s Koparkhairane connected Thursday (March 5, 2026). According to an authoritative from the Regional Disaster Management Department, the mishap took spot betwixt 4.30 and 5.00 PM wrong flat-number 2 connected the crushed level of Vidyabhavan Apartment successful Sector 2. The 53-year-old teacher Shyamali Choudhary was utilizing the level to thatch neighbourhood children. Ms. Choudhary herself suffered insignificant injuries and was discharged from the infirmary aft receiving archetypal aesculapian care.
At the clip of the incident, 11 students were successful the country erstwhile a information of the precocious level slab abruptly fractured and fell. Emergency responders from the Vashi, Airoli, and Kopar Khairane occurrence stations arrived and launched a rescue alongside section police. “Fire crews and catastrophe absorption teams reached the determination and freed each children trapped beneath the rubble. The injured were transported to adjacent aesculapian facilities,” stated an authoritative from the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC).
Five children Nishika Dhanwade (13), Ayesha Khan (11), Devansh Pujari (12), Siddhant Gupta (9), and Rajdeep Varkhade (11) were admitted to Apex Hospital successful Kopar Khairane. Another child, Aaradhya Dhanwade, was recovered unharmed and was taken location by household members. Parth Khairnar (12), a nonmigratory of the archetypal level who was not attending the class, was besides wounded and taken to Sai Jyot Hospital.
Other injured students, including Tanvi Sachin Srivastava (10), Rudra Pravin Patil, Prince Soni (14), Kulsum Khan (13), and Manish Mhase, received attraction astatine Lions Club Hospital successful the vicinity. Manish, aged 13, suffered captious caput injuries and was moved to the NMMC infirmary successful Vashi, wherever helium aboriginal passed distant portion receiving treatment.
In the aftermath, Mayor Sujata Patil, Deputy Mayor Dashrath Bhagat, and NMMC Commissioner Dr. Kailas Shinde visited the country to measure the concern and aboriginal checked connected the hospitalized children. Dr. Shinde instructed the civic engineering helping to transportation retired a structural valuation of the gathering to place the crushed for the slab nonaccomplishment and guarantee the structure’s stability. Officials confirmed that the ceiling of the hallway wrong the level had caved in, showering debris onto the students beneath.
Dr. Shinde noted that the building, which contains 16 apartments, is astir 28 years old. “It was built successful 1998, and residents person occupied it for astir 28 years. It is simply a sanctioned construction. The nine carried retired repairs astir a twelvemonth ago, but nary enactment was performed connected the extortion slab,” helium explained.
As a information measure, the NMMC has evacuated each residents from the building. Temporary structure has been arranged for them astatine Annasaheb Patil Cultural Bhavan successful Kopar Khairane, according to an NMMC representative.
