Heavy rainfall lashed Mumbai on Monday, causing water logging in some parts of the city, delaying suburban trains and slowing down traffic, NDTV reported. The India Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rainfall in the city over the next 24 hours.
Three people have died in rain-related incidents over the last two days. On Monday morning, a 13-year-old boy was killed and his parents were injured when a wall collapsed on their house in Wadoli village of Thane district. On Monday morning, an 18-year-old boy drowned after he fell into a manhole near Evershine Nagar in Mumbai’s Malad suburb.
On Sunday, two people died and five were injured after a tree fell on them near Metro Cinema at MG Road in South Mumbai’s Marine Lines area.
The disaster management unit of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has predicted heavy rainfall over the next four hours in Navi Mumbai.
Residents in Chembur were seen wading through water-logged streets. Roads in and around Dadar Hindmata, Kurla, Santacruz-Chembur Link Road, the Mithi River bridge in Kurla and Kalina are also flooded, The Indian Express reported. Subways in Andheri, Khar and Malad are under water.
More than 50 buses run by the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking, or BEST, have been diverted due to waterlogged streets. Traffic was moving slowly on the Eastern Express highway after a container broke down on JVLR bridge near Vikhroli, the Mumbai Police tweeted.
The police have deployed more than 2,000 traffic constables and 750 wardens, and instructed traffic police personnel to be prepared for water-logging because of Metro construction work.
“These heavy showers are due to a cyclonic circulation over north Konkan and adjoining South Gujarat and another circulation in the Bay of Bengal,” an unidentified IMD official told The Indian Express. “We expect the rain activity to increase in the coming week, with scattered heavy to very heavy rain on June 27 and 28 in parts of north Konkan, including Mumbai.”
Local trains on Western Railway were delayed by 10 to 15 minutes because of a track failure near Bandra station, according to the Hindustan Times. “Water-logging was reported at Sion station but trains were running on all three lines of the Central Railway [Main line, Harbour and Trans-harbour] with a delay of 5 minutes to 7 minutes,” Sunil Udasi, the chief public relations officer of Central Railway, told the daily.
Bandra West MLA Ashish Shelar of the BJP said that the BMC is doing its best to help people.
At least 15 cars were damaged after the wall of an under-construction building collapsed at Vidyalankar Road in Antop Hill on Monday morning, PTI reported. Mumbai’s civic body officials and firemen vacated an entire wing of the building. Some residents, however, are still inside the building.
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