Mumbai: Dharavi Covid hero Ramesh Nangre dies of heart attack

Assistant police commissioner Ramesh Nangre (55), lauded for his work as chief of Dharavi police station when Covid was at its peak last year, died of a heart attack on Thursday. Nangre, survived by wife and three children, was last posted at Sakinaka.

“Nangre was on night duty on Wednesday. We spoke around 10.30 am on Thursday and he said he would come to Sakinaka by 12.30 pm. He wanted to visit a temple in Powai for Mahashivratri. Around noon, I learnt he had passed away,” said senior inspector Balwant Deshmukh. Nangre was his immediate superior. When Nangre felt uneasy on Thursday morning he was taken to a private hospital in Kandivli. He breathed his last at the hospital. Two days back he had taken his second vaccine shot. “He was fit and used to follow yoga religiously,” said a colleague. Dharavi got a mention by WHO for breaking the Covid chain.