Mumbai rain: Late trains, traffic snarls, water, scary wall collapse

25 Jun 2018 1:43 PM | General
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Mumbai: Mumbai came to a standstill on Monday -- just a few days after the onset of monsoon -- as overnight rains led to the usual chaos of delayed trains, water-logged roads, horrific traffic snarls, and a rather scary wall collapse in a central neighbourhood of the city. 

A large part of the boundary wall of a plush apartment complex in Wadala collapsed and subsided in the morning, burying nearly a dozen cars. The damaged cars, mostly belonging to residents of the complex -- Lloyds  Estate -- were stuck in debris. The building, home to senior lawyers, judges and businessmen, was vacated by civic authorities. No one was injured in the incident. Residents of the building complained that construction work in the vicinity had weakened the foundation of their boundary wall that gave way on Monday.

Local trains, the city's life line, were running behind schedule as usual, at the hint of the first heavy rains this season. Water-logging was reported from low-lying areas and office-goers and vehicles found it difficult to navigate roads in large parts of the city. Meanwhile, Mumbai's civic body officials placed pumps on stand-by in neighbourhoods that are prone to water-logging. The Indian Meteorological Department has said that heavy to very heavy rains are expected to continue. Two people died and five were injured on Sunday after a tree fell on them near Metro Cinema at MG Road in South Mumbai's Marine Lines area, according to news agency ANI.

A 13-year-old boy was killed and his parents were injured when an adjacent wall collapsed on their house at Wadol village in Ambernath taluka of Thane around 2:15 am today, the district civic body's regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam told news agency PTI. In another incident, a 65-feet compound wall of a housing complex in Thane city collapsed this morning, crushing two cars and another vehicle, he said. On Sunday, Mumbai recorded the highest amount of rainfall at 110.80 mm between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, a Met department official said.

Courtesy: Deccan Chronicle

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