Heavy rain in Mumbai and suburbs; Train, bus transport hit

Bom­bay:

Nor­mal life was dis­rupt­ed on Wednes­day as heavy rain con­tin­ued in Mum­bai and its sub­urbs, caus­ing water­log­ging and traf­fic con­ges­tion in sev­er­al places. The India Mete­o­ro­log­i­cal Depart­ment (IMD) has fore­cast heavy rain in Mum­bai and its sub­urbs through Fri­day, with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of very heavy show­ers in iso­lat­ed locations.

Train and bus ser­vices have been dis­rupt­ed on some routes in the city due to flood­ing in the low-lying areas and on the rail­road tracks, offi­cials said.

Maha­rash­tra has wit­nessed heavy rains since Mon­day and water lev­els in some rivers have risen rapid­ly. In Thane, a man was crushed to death when he fell off his motor­cy­cle after hit­ting a pothole.

A land­slide was report­ed near Prat­ap­gad Fort in Satara dis­trict ear­ly this morn­ing after heavy rains. There were no reports of injuries, offi­cials said.

The weath­er bureau has issued “red” and “orange” alerts fore­cast­ing very heavy to extreme­ly heavy rains for the next few days for Raigad, Rat­na­giri and some oth­er districts.

Chief Min­is­ter Eknath Shinde on Tues­day instruct­ed state admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials to take the nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions and ensure there were no deaths or prop­er­ty damage.

The pre­mier also vis­it­ed the Bri­han­mum­bai Munic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tion (BCM) dis­as­ter con­trol room and said he had direct­ed author­i­ties to move peo­ple from land­slide-prone loca­tions to avoid loss of life.

He said sev­er­al Nation­al Dis­as­ter Response Force (NDRF) teams are sta­tioned in var­i­ous loca­tions across the state and more per­son­nel will be dis­patched as needed.