An elderly man died and four girls were injured in separate incidents during unseasonal rains that lashed Maharashtra`s Palghar district over the last two days, the officials said, reported the PTI.

The heavy rains also damaged houses and orchards, officials said on Thursday.

Namdeo Jadhav, 60, a resident of Mokhada town, died when a wall of a house collapsed on him on Wednesday during untimely showers, district collector Govind Bodke and disaster management officer Vivekanand Kadam said, as per the PTI.

Four girls aged between 12 and 16 years, who were in an orchard during the showers in Dahanu taluka, were injured when trees fell on them, the officials said.

The district, located adjoining Mumbai, received heavy rains on May 14 and 15.

A total of 227 houses were partially damaged, while fruit trees spread across 2.67 hectares were adversely affected in the rains in Dahanu, said the officials, the news agency reported on Thursday.

Houses were partially damaged in other talukas like Talasari (255), Jawhar (241), Vikramgad (15), Palghar (17) Wada (4) and Mokhada (34). Around 44.84 hectares of orchards/fruit gardens were also damaged due to the rains, they added, according to the PTI.

Meanwhile, the death toll in the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse on Thursday reached 16 after the bodies of a retired GM of Mumbai airport ATC and his wife were retrieved from the wreckage at the crash site. The rescue operation was called off on Thursday morning with no hopes of finding survivors three days after the tragedy, officials said, as per the PTI.

A 120 feet x 120 feet billboard, which according to officials was illegally installed, collapsed on a petrol pump in the Chheda Nagar area of suburban Ghatkopar during a dust storm on Monday evening, killing 14 people and injuring 75 others.

Former general manager (GM) of Mumbai ATC Manoj Chansoria (60) and his wife Anita (59) were missing since Monday evening when they left for Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh from the ATC guest house in western Mumbai in a car.

The bodies of a man and a woman were extricated from a car stuck underneath the collapsed hoarding shortly after midnight on Wednesday and the victims were later identified as Manoj Chansoria and his wife, they said.

(with PTI inputs)

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