India News | Woman Found Dead in Thane Lake

Thane, Jun 6 (PTI) The body of an unidentified woman has been found in a lake in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Tuesday.

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Some passers-by spotted the body in the Varhala lake on Monday evening and alerted the police.

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Local firemen and police rushed to the spot and fished out the body of the woman, clad in a green saree and believed to be around 50 years' old, an official from Bhiwandi town police station said.

The body has been sent to a government hospital for postmortem, he said.

The police have as of now registered a case of accidental death and a probe is on into it, he added.

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