A 46-year-old man died of a heart attack and at least 210 revellers were injured in various mishaps that marred the ‘Dah-handi’ celebrations held in different parts of Mumbai and neighbouring Thane on Monday.
Identifying the person who died of a heart attack as one Rajendra Ambekar, a senior official of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) said that Ambekar, who was among the dancing revellers, collapsed all of a sudden locality and died before he could be rushed to the local civil hospital for treatment.
Eyewitness said that Ambekar was among a group of dancing Govinda revelers that was proceeding from one festival venue to another in a procession, when he felt giddy and collapsed at Thane’s Varatknagar locality.
Ambedkar was diagnosed by the doctors at the Thane Civil Hospital as having suffered an attack. A native of lalbaug, he had specially come down to Thane to participate in the ‘Dahi-handi’ celebrations.
As many as 182 revellers were injured in various mishap that took during the formation of the formation of human pyramids in various parts of Mumbai, where at least 30 mishaps were reported till the evening.
An official at the BMC’s disaster control room said that of the injured, 160 were treated and allowed from at various private and Government hospitals, while 22 are undergoing treatment at different city hospitals.
Even in the neighbouring Thane, the celebrations were marred by at least a dozen mishaps that saw revelers skid and fall from the tall human pyramids formed as part of the ‘Dahi-handi’ celebrations, held every year a day after the Gokulashtami festival. In all, 28 revellers were injured in mishaps at Thane.
Of the injured, 14 were admitted to Thane Civil Hospital, while an equal number were admitted to the Chhtrapati Shivaji Hospital at Kalva.