The accident occurred when the luggage tied to the roof of a bus got entangled with a cable on a street light pole and pulled it down
The officials rushed to the spot following the incident. Pic/RDMC
A 42-year-old man reportedly sustained injuries after a street light pole fell on him in Maharashtra's Thane city on Tuesday morning, a civic official said, reported the PTI.
According to the PTI, the accident occurred when the luggage tied to the roof of a bus got entangled with a cable on a street light pole and pulled it down, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the civic disaster management cell.
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The pole fell on a pedestrian, and he sustained injuries, he said.
The man is undergoing treatment at a hospital, the official said.
Man attacks, kills girlfriend in public in Palghar; detained
Meanwhile, in an another incident, a 20-year-old woman was attacked and killed allegedly by her boyfriend in full public view in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Tuesday morning, police said, the PTI reported.
A video of the attack that took place around 8.30 am in the Chinchpada locality of Vasai has surfaced on social media.
The victim was identified as Aarti Yadav. She was on her way to work with her boyfriend, Rohit Yadav, when they quarrelled midway, an official said, the news agency reported on Tuesday.
Rohit allegedly stabbed the victim multiple times with a sharp object and continued to attack her even after she collapsed on the ground, he said.
The accused did not flee the scene and sat on the steps near the body, the official said, as per the PTI.
A team from the Valiv police rushed to the spot and sent the body for a post-mortem, he said.
"The accused attacked the woman with an industrial spanner, and there were 18 wounds on her body," senior inspector Jairaj Ranawre of Valiv police said, according to the PTI.
The victim and the accused, who has been detained, lived in the same neighbourhood in Nalasopara, and worked at an industrial estate, he said.
The couple had been in a relationship for the last six years, but they were having problems as the accused suspected the woman of having an affair with another man, the official said.
In a video of the attack, the accused can be seen attacking the woman repeatedly, with no one in the vicinity coming to her rescue.
(with PTI inputs)
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