Heavy rain lash Mumbai, throws normal life out of gear

Several regions of the country have been receiving monsoon rain with Maharashtra and West Bengal been lashed by heavy downpour over the last 24 hours.

In Mumbai, normal life was thrown out of gear even as incessant showers continued to hit other cities like Pune and Nashik in Maharashtra. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Santacruz recorded 94.4 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours while Colaba recorded 48.3 mm rains during the same period. The IMD has predicted "very heavy" showers for the mega-polis in the next 24 hours.

Some low-lying areas in the country's financial capital, particularly in Central Mumbai, witnessed water logging with people wading about in



knee-deep waters in Dadar, Parel, Worli. The situation was similar in Andheri and other suburbs.

Suburban trains on all the three lines - Western Railway, Central Railway and Harbour (of the Central Railway) were running behind schedules due to water-logging on tracks in some sections during the day.

Meanwhile, incessant rains continued to lash Pune and many parts of western Maharashtra since last night. In West Bengal, Kolkata received the monsoon's first downpour this season with incessant rains since morning today, as the MeT department forecast more rains tomorrow.

The MeT department has forecast heavy rains for the next two days in sub-Himalayan West Bengal.