Thane, May 12 (PTI) The body of a man aged around 30 years was found in a lake in Maharashtra's Thane city on Friday, civic officials said.

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The body was spotted in the Upvan lake around 9 am, said Avinash Sawant, the chief of Thane civic body's Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC).

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It was fished out and handed over to the Vartak Nagar police, he said.

A case of accidental death was registered and the body was sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, a police official said.

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