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Nine-year-old dies while watching Dahi Handi event as balcony collapses in MaharashtraOne end of the rope from which the Dahi Handi was hung was fastened to the balcony, a police official said.
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A nine-year-old girl died and another was injured as a balcony of a house collapsed on a crowd of people watching a Dahi Handi event in Buldhana district of eastern Maharashtra on Thursday, police said.

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The incident took place in Mansinghpura area of Deulgaon Raja town around 8 pm.

One end of the rope from which the Dahi Handi was hung was fastened to the balcony, a police official said.

The rope broke and the entire balcony came down on the spectators below, he said.

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(Published 08 September 2023, 00:39 IST)