Mumbai Rains: 25 die in house collapses after landslides

Twenty five people died in house collapses triggered by landslides following incessant overnight rains in Mumbai which caused severe water logging and disruption of suburban train services and vehicular traffic in the financial capital on Sunday officials saidThe Western Railway and Central Railway briefly suspended suburban train services in Mumbai after the heavy rains and many long distance trains were terminated or regulated at various stations officials saidSeventeen people died as a compound wall came crashing down on some houses located on a hillock after a landslide a fire official saidMumbai News Rescue operations on at the house collapse site in Chembur Video Credit 5 Battalion NDRF pictwittercomR3vQfoYMMwmdash Mid Day mid_day July 18 2021The retaining wall of the Bharatnagar locality in Mumbais Mahul area collapsed at 1 am the official said Seven people were injured and taken to nearby Rajawadi hospital he addedSeven hutment dwellers died as six shanties collapsed after a landslide following incessant overnight rains in Mumbais Vikhroli suburb at 230 am a civic official said Two persons were injured and were sent to a nearby hospital he addedMumbaiNews Canine search being conducted at the house collapse site in Vikhroli Video Credis 5 Battalion NDRF pictwittercomUEPJXv4y02mdash Mid Day mid_day July 18 2021A 16yearold boy died after a forest department compound wall collapsed in suburban Bhandup an official saidA viral video showed a twowheeler being dragged in water in an inundated street in Chinchpokli areaThe suburban train services were suspended due to water logging on the tracks due to the overnight heavy downpour railway officials said adding the services were resumed in the morningPrime Minister Narendra Modi announced Rs 2 lakh exgratia for the families of those who died in the house collapses Rs 50000 would be given to those injured he tweetedSaddened by the loss of lives due to wall collapses in Chembur and Vikhroli in Mumbai In this hour of grief my thoughts are with the bereaved families Praying that those who are injured have a speedy recovery PM narendramodimdash PMO India PMOIndia July 18 2021Rs 2 lakh each from PMNRF would be given to the next of kin of those who lost their lives due to wall collapses in Mumbai Rs 50000 would be given to those injuredmdash PMO India PMOIndia July 18 2021President Ram Nath Kovind also gave condolences to those bereaved mdash President of India rashtrapatibhvn July 18 2021A Twitter user shared a video of a deer swimming on the inundated Mumbai streetsA deer seen swimming in flooded streets of Mumbai Video courtesy WhatsAppMumbai MumbaiRains Rainfall flooding mumbaimatterz RetweetsMumbai tweetsvirat VagariesWeather ranjeetnature ChatterjeeBadri pictwittercomqVfDGWg8GOmdash salil k catchsalil July 18 2021The rain fury reminded some Mumbaikars of the the 24hour rainfall figure of 944 mm on July 26 2005 The India Meteorological Department IMD has issued a red alert for Mumbai in the backdrop of heavy rains a BMC official said Alerts by the IMD are colourcoded from green to redA green alert stands for no warning no action needs to be taken by the authorities and the forecast is of light to moderate rain A red alert stands for warning and asks authorities to take action An lsquoorangersquo alert indicates that the authorities are expected to ldquobe preparedrdquo A sudden change in climatic conditions led to Mumbai witnessing over 100 mm rainfall in six hours the IMD said in an early morning bulletin It also changed the rains forecast for the city from orange to red alertAlso Read In Pics Severe weather warning issued in Mumbai NDRF teams shifted from PuneThe IMD said that till 630 am on Sunday Mumbai and adjoining areas received over 120 mm rainfall in preceding 12 hours Mumbai would receive ldquoheavy to very heavyrdquo rainfall at a few places with extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places the IMD said Extremely heavy rainfall means precipitation of more than 2045 mm in 24 hours while heavy rainfall ranges between 1156 mm to 2044 mm rainfall as per the IMD The bulletin issued at 3 am said IMD recorded 213 mm rainfall at Santacruz 1975 mm at Bandra and 174 mm at Colaba in the cityThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever