Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Incessant heavy rainfall accompanied by strong winds continued to batter Mumbai over the past 24 hours, triggering widespread disruptions across the city. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) reported more than 99 incidents of trees or branches falling, around 13 cases of short circuits, and six incidents of wall collapses and waterlogging.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a Red Alert for Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, and Raigad for the next three hours, warning of intense spells of rain at isolated places.
The weather office also cautioned that heavy to very heavy rainfall would continue across the city and suburbs, with the possibility of extremely heavy rain during the night and early morning hours. Gusty winds reaching speeds of 50 to 60 kmph are also likely.
Heavy monsoon showers continued to lash Mumbai and neighbouring districts prompting the Palghar district administration to declare a holiday for all schools and colleges. The IMD’s upgraded Red Alert has put civic authorities across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region on high alert.
The relentless rainfall has also claimed four lives and left two others injured in separate weather-related incidents across the region.
In Kharghar, a 17-year-old boy drowned in a pond. A 26-year-old man died after being electrocuted in Bhiwandi, while a 51-year-old man lost his life after a portion of a building collapsed in Mumbai’s Walkeshwar area.
In another incident, a 45-year-old man was killed after a ceiling collapsed inside a building in the Kamothe area of Navi Mumbai.
