Incessant showers lashed Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Wednesday morning, leading to flooding in many low-lying areas and traffic snarls on roads, officials said, PTI reported. The local trains, considered the lifeline of the metropolis, were largely unaffected on the Central Railway and Western Railway routes. The suburban services on the Harbour Line were running slow, according to railway officials.
At least six people died in rain-related incidents over the past 24 hours. 95 people were evacuated as heavy rain battered Gadchiroli, Nandurbar, Nashik and Palghar districts of Maharashtra. Most of the evacuations were done in Gadchiroli, Nashik, Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri, and Raigad districts. Two persons were killed after a structure collapsed in a Mumbai suburb. While one person drowned in the Gadchiroli district in east Maharashtra.
An orange alert for Mumbai and Thane is in place till Thursday. While a red alert has been issued for Palghar and Raigad for the same period, indicating extremely heavy rainfall. Rainfall caused waterlogging and traffic jams in Mumbai on Tuesday. With overnight heavy rainfall, several low-lying areas in Mumbai— Sion, SV Road between Bandra and Andheri, Milan and Andheri subway were inundated.