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Citizens protest over death of woman due to excavator at garbage segregation point

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Thane: A day after a woman died as she got entangled in an excavator during garbage segregation in Thane city, irate citizens staged a protest outside the civic body with her body on Tuesday to press for their demands, including compensation to her family.

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Due to the protest, a tense situation unfolded outside the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), prompting the police authorities to deploy their personnel at the site in large numbers.

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A senior official of the TMC later assured the protesters that the garbage segregation centre, where the incident took place on Monday evening, would be shut down permanently and compensation would be paid to the family of the deceased.

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