The situation in the Thane region of Maharashtra intensified on Sunday night as people found an animal head inside a dustbin. As per the locals who found the head, it is suspected to be that of a buffalo which was found in a dustbin, police said on Monday.

The Thane police later reached the Hajuri locality in the Wagle Estate area on Sunday night and diffused the tension, they said, adding the samples of the carcass were sent for an examination.

Wagle Estate police station's senior inspector Shivaji Gaware, while addressing the situation, said that “Some people spotted the severed animal head in a dustbin in the locality on Sunday night and raised an alarm.”