The first rain of this year's monsoon season in Mumbai has caused water-logging in various parts of the city, prompting the traffic police to shut four subways and forcing motorists to abandon their vehicles on roads.
The city police appealed to Mumbaikars not to step out of their homes unnecessarily and cautioned them against travelling to some of the inundated areas.
While there were fewer vehicles on the city roads amid the downpour, motorcyclists and other two-wheeler riders were unable to manoeuvre their vehicles at some of the flooded places.
The traffic police closed Milan, Khar, Andheri and Malad subways for motorists due to water-logging at these places.
Local train services from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajTerminus (CSMT) to neighbouring Thane and Vashi in Navi Mumbai were suspended due to water-logging on some railway tracks, officials said.
Routes of some BEST buses run the city civic body's transport wing were also diverted, they said.
A boy swims in a waterlogged street following a heavy monsoon rainfall in Mumbai on June 9, 2021. | Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
A taxi driver pushes his car as he tries to wade through a waterlogged street at Hindmata in Mumbai, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. | PTI Photo/Shashank Parade
A girl plays in a waterlogged street following a heavy monsoon rainfall in Mumbai on June 9, 2021. | Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
Vehicles make their way through the waterlogged road during heavy rain, at Kings Circle, in Mumbai, Wednesday, June 9, 2021 | PTI Photo/Shashank Parade
Traffic stands at a stand still on a flooded road following heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai on June 9, 2021. | Punit Paranjape/AFP
Commuters make their way through flooded roads following heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai on June 9, 2021. | Punit Paranjape/AFP
A man walks on a flooded road during heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai on June 9, 2021. | Punit Paranjape/AFP
Children play in a waterlogged street following a heavy monsoon rainfall in Mumbai on June 9, 2021. | Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
A family wades along a waterlogged street following a heavy monsoon rainfall in Mumbai on June 9, 2021. | Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
Municipal workers use a water pump to drain weater of a waterlogged road during a heavy monsoon rainfall in Mumbai on June 9, 2021. | Photo by Sujit Jaiswal / AFP
With inputs from PTI.
