As Mumbai slept the skies opened up with torrential rains measuring between 150 mm to over 200 mm in some areas, submerging many areas and playing havoc with road and rail traffic.
Twenty nine people died in house collapses triggered by landslides following incessant overnight rains in Mumbai, which caused severe water logging and disruption of suburban train services and vehicular traffic in the financial capital on Sunday, officials said.
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) conducts the inspects during a rescue operation after a wall collapses at Chemburs Bharat Nagar area due to a landslide, in Mumbai on Sunday. | ANI
NDRF workers bring a dead body from the debris during a rescue operation after a wall collapses at Vikhroli, in Mumbai on Sunday. | ANI
NDRF conducts a rescue operation after a wall collapses at Chemburs Bharat Nagar area due to a landslide, in Mumbai on Sunday. | ANI
: A house turned into debris after a wall collapses due to a landslide at Chembur, in Mumbai on Sunday. | ANI
(NDRF) inspects during a rescue operation after a wall collapses at Chembur's Bharat Nagar area due to a landslide, in Mumbai on Sunday | ANI
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NDRF) and other rescue team personnel inspect the site of the landslide in a slum area where 18 people were killed after several homes were crushed by a collapsed wall and a landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai on July 18, 2021. | (Photo by Sujit Jaiswal / AFP)
(Photo by Sujit Jaiswal / AFP)
(Photo by Sujit Jaiswal / AFP)