Elderly man dies in bank queue in Palghar, Maharashtra

Mumbai:A 72-year-old man died today after reportedly suffering a heart attack while standing in a bank queue in adjoining Palghar district, police said.

Banks all over the country were witnessing extra rush today after the three-day-long holiday.

Prabhakar Narayan Raut was standing in the queue outside the Dena bank at Chinchni to withdraw cash when he collapsed after a suspected heart attack at around 4 pm, police said.

Raut, a former government official, was rushed to the nearby primary health centre where he was declared dead, police said.

He was standing in the queue for nearly two hours, according to eye-witnesses.