Chikkaballapur: Former Congress MLA from Devanahalli K Venkataswamy died late Friday night due to heart attack. He was 54.

Venkataswamy had complained of chest pain three times over the past one month. He was undergoing treatment at the Narayana Health hospital in Bengaluru, but the former legislator died at around 2 am as he failed to respond to the treatment.

He is survived by his wife and two children.

Venkataswamy’s mortal remains have been placed at his house in his native village Sadahalli, for people to pay their respects to the deceased leader.

The former legislator had been elected as Congress MLA in 2008; and is said to have been aspiring to get the party ticket for the polls this year too.

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Mumbai (PTI): A 75-year-old man died after some portion of a slab in a two-storey residential structure collapsed on him in Mumbai's Bhandup area on Saturday morning, officials said.

The incident occurred at Tulshipada in Patkar Compound of Bhandup West around 9.45 am, they said.

"The victim, identified as Susai Daevdas Kaunder, was injured when some part of the slab on the upper floor of a two-storey structure fell on him," a civic official said.

He was immediately taken to nearby Navkaar Hospital, where he was declared dead, the official said.