Mumbai Rains Live Updates: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray will chair a high-level meeting of officials through video conference at 6 pm on Sunday to discuss the crisis in Mumbai after at least 22 people were killed in separate incidents of house collapse due to heavy rain in Mumbai. In one instance, a residential building collapsed in Mumbai’s Vikhroli area in the wee hours of Sunday, killing three people, according to the BMC. Meanwhile, several people were killed after a wall collapsed on some shanties in Chembur’s Bharat Nagar area due to a landslide.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed anguish at the loss of lives caused by wall collapse incidents in Mumbai due to heavy rains. His office also announced ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for the next of kin of the deceased from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund. A sum of Rs 50,000 would be given to the injured. President Ram Nath Kovind, too, condoled the deaths. “Deeply saddened by the news of many casualties in incidents following heavy rain in Mumbai’s Chembur and Vikhroli areas,” he said.
Incessant overnight rains threw parts of Mumbai out of gear on Sunday with the city witnessing severe waterlogging, disruption of local train services and vehicular traffic. As a result of the inclement weather, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) temporarily suspended flight operations between 12.42 am to 5.24 am on Sunday. During this time, a total of nine flights were diverted. Flight operations at CSMIA started again from 5.24 am.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for Mumbai in the backdrop of heavy rains, a BMC official said. Moderate to heavy rain or thundershowers are very likely to occur in the city and its suburbs with a possibility of very heavy rainfall at a few places, the IMD said. Five automatic weather stations across the city — Kandivali Fire station, Kandivali workshop, H East ward office, Vile Parle fire station, S ward office — have recorded over 100 mm rain in an hour between 1 and 2 am. The downpour has caused heavy flooding in low-lying areas of Chunabhatti, Sion, Dadar, and Gandhi Market, Chembur and Kurla LBS Road.
Three people were killed after a few huts collapsed in Surya Nagar in Panchsheel Chawl in Vikhroli east. (Express Photo)
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray to chair a high-level meeting of officials through video conference at 6 pm today, in view of the situation following heavy rains in Mumbai: Chief Minister's Office (ANI)
Aditya Thackeray visits the locations hit by landslides to take stock of the situation.
As a result of the inclement weather, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) temporarily suspended flight operations between 12.42 am to 5.24 am on Sunday. During this time, a total of nine flights were diverted. Flight operations at CSMIA started again from 5.24 am. (ENS)
Two women stood on a wooden ladder in their shanty for over two hours out of the fear of getting electrocuted after a wall near their locality collapsed in Mumbai's Mahul area on Sunday following heavy rains.
Laxmi Jongankar (40) was inside her shanty when people outside started shouting about the wall collapse in the area.
She opened the window of her house and saw other shanties were destroyed. But she did not notice that the debris has entered her house also and damaged it.
“As people panicked and start shouting, I along with another woman relative stood on a wooden ladder in my shanty. After more than two hours, a man came to enquire about us and asked us to come out," she said.
The woman said she opened the door and managed to come out of the house with the help of a wooden stick. (PTI)
Heavy overnight rains in Mumbai has led to Vihar Lake overflowing on Sunday morning, a civic official said. A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation statement said Vihar Lake, with a storage capacity of 27,698 million litres, is the smallest of the water bodies that are part of the supply mechanism to the metropolis. The lake, built in 1859, supplies 90 million litres per day (MLD), the civic body informed. (PTI)
NDRF is taking help of sniffer dogs to locate people buried in mud at Bharat Nagar, Vashi Naka. At least two people are still inside the debris, say residents. The body of a 14-year-old girl has been found from under the debris at Vikhroli. (ENS)
With floodwaters having entered the Bhandup water purification complex adjoining the Sanjay Gandhi National Park following intense rainfall, normal water supply to the western suburbs and the island city area of Mumbai has been affected. Residents are likely to get supply with less pressure and there may also be turbidity in the water, officials said.
Water works department officials said that it will take three to eight hours to restart normal supply. Read full report by Yogesh Naik
The state government has announced an aid of Rs 5 lakh to the kin of those deceased in the landslides and house collapse at various places in Mumbai including Chemburs Vashi Naka and Vikhroli Park site.
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said those injured will be treated free of cost at various hospitals.
The CM was taking inputs from the BMC control room since early morning. Thackerays son and suburban district guardian minister Aditya Thackeray visited the spot at Vashi naka’s Bharat nagar where more than 15 persons had died.
Former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya said that the slum mafia and contractors of the BMC are playing with the lives of people and this is a very sad thing.
The office of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) and the residential quarters of five forest officers were damaged by incessant rain in Mumbai that started Sunday morning.
“Following the rain, water from the Dahisar river started gushing into out premises. The quarters of five of our employees were completely submerged. They had rushed to my house at 2.30 am and have been temporarily shifted to the guesthouse. The entire area is covered in mud. Dahisar has recorded 190 mm of rainfall till now,” SGNP director G Mallikarjun told The Indian Express.
Anwar Ahmed, the former director of SGNP said a similar situation had happened in 2016 and 2019. “We had submitted a plan to construct new offices at a height, but somehow, the money was not sanctioned,” he added. Read the full report here.
Addressing the incident that took place in Chembur where a wall collapsed due to heavy rains, killing 17 people, Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Anushakti Nagar MLA Nawab Malik said that people living in dangerous areas would immediately be shifted to permanent settlements. "BMC will investigate this incident," he told ANI.
Maharashtra Environment Minister Aditya Thackeray arrived in Chembur, where a wall collapsed due to heavy rains. At least 11 people were killed in the incident. (ANI)
Several areas across the city experienced water logging due to high intensity rains.
Over 35 streets and localities were inundated:
3-foot water at the low-lying Hindamata at Dadar
King Circle and Gandhi Market in Matunga
Wadala church
Shakkar Panchayat Chowk
Ambika Mill
Nair hospital in Mumbai Central
Sangam Nagar, Wadala
Madkebua Chowk
Sion Road number 24
Breach Candy
Marine Lines
Sheetal Cinema, Kurla West
Anjanabai Nagar, Chembur
Mankhurd Railway station
Sion Railway station
Kurla Railway station
Trombay bridge
Swastik Nagar
Shell Colony, Chembur
RCF, Chembur
Anushkati Nagar, Chembur
Kurla bus depot
Nehru Nagar
Kalpana Cinema, Kurla
Sanjay Gandhi National Park premises in Borivali
National College, Bandra
SV Road from Kandivali to Bandra
Andheri market
Andheri subway
Milan Subway
Dahisar Subway
Bandra Talkies
Veera Desai Road, Andheri west
Vakola Bridge
BEST Nagar, Goregaon.
Four separate incidents of walls collapsing were reported in the last 24 hours due to heavy rainfall in Thane. Apart from this, water logging was also reported in 18 different locations. (ENS)
Incessant overnight rains threw parts of Mumbai out of gear on Sunday with the city witnessing severe waterlogging, disruption of local train services and vehicular traffic. The downpour has caused heavy flooding in low-lying areas of Chunabhatti, Sion, Dadar, and Gandhi Market, Chembur and Kurla LBS Road. Here are some glimpses of Nalasopara.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday condoled the loss of lives in Mumbai due to heavy rainfall. “Deeply saddened by the news of many casualties in incidents following heavy rain in Mumbai’s Chembur and Vikhroli areas,” he said.
"I express my condolences to the bereaved families and wish for successful relief and rescue work," he added.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has been deployed across Mumbai to carry out rescue operations amidst heavy rains. Take a look.
Vihar lake, which supplies drinking water to residents of Mumbai, starts to overflow following heavy rainfall in the city.
Amidst incessant heavy showers, water supply in Mumbai took a hit on Sunday after flood water accumulated at BMC's Bhandup treatment plant. As a precautionary measure, the civic body has announced that it is shutting down all pumps in the city. (ENS)
Local train services in Mumbai have been affected on Central Main Line and Harbour Line due to incessant rainfall. Overnight rains threw parts of Mumbai out of gear on Sunday with the city witnessing severe waterlogging, disruption of local train services and vehicular traffic.