Thane, In a tragic incident, a wall collapsed in a chawl this morning in Mumbra Retibunder area in which a 75-year-old man was killed.

Regional Disaster Management Cell chief Santosh Kadam said, "the deceased identified as Ismail Jyotiba Kamble was buried after the wall of his house in a chawl came crashing down".

Room No 2 of Vishnu Namdeo Patil chawl is the resident of Kamble.

According to official, immediately after the incident, firemen from Mumbra along with the RDMC staff rushed to spot and extricated the body which was later sent for postmortem.

Yesterday, the city had witnessed heavy rainfall throughout the day.