Rajgad police identified the deceased girl as Vidya Jadhav of Mangaon in Raigad district. The injured, Laxmi Waghmare, was undergoing treatment in a hospital.Rajendra Chavan of the Rajgad police told TOI that Vidya’s family worked at a brick kiln belonging to Ganesh Bhilare in the Kikvi village. “The owner said they had constructed a water storage tank for the kiln. On Monday, around 1.30pm, one of the walls of the tank caved in all of a sudden, while the girls were playing near it,” Chavan said.
He said the girls were trapped under the debris. The owner and his father, who were at their farmhouse, rushed to the spot. “The duo rescued the girls and took them to a nearby hospital, where Vidya was declared dead by the doctors,” he said. tnn
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