3 killed in 24 hrs, 95 evacuated from flooded areas in Mah
13 Jul 2022 08:49:47
MUMBAI,
THREE persons died in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra over the past 24 hours and 95 people were evacuated from some of the flooded places, a disaster management department report said on Tuesday.
Thirteen teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and three of the State Disaster Response Force were deployed in vulnerable districts of the State, it said.
Two persons were killed after a structure collapsed in a Mumbai suburb, while one person drowned in Gadchiroli district, the report said.
The incessant showers affected 10 villages in Gadchiroli, Nandurbar and Mumbai suburban regions, it said.
The Parshuram Ghat near Chiplun town in Ratnagiri district is still closed for vehicular movement, the report added.
Traffic on the Mumbai-Goa national highway was diverted last week following a landslide in the Parshuram Ghat section. The India Meteorological Department has issued a ‘red alert’ for the north Maharashtra district from July 11 to 14, predicting very heavy downpour.
Heavy rains and strong winds lashed Mumbai and suburbs on Tuesday morning and flooded many parts of the
city within a couple of hours, throwing road traffic out of gear at some places, officials said. A tree fell near a petrol pump close to the Dockyard railway station of the Harbour Line, due to which traffic movement was affected. The tree was later moved aside and the traffic resumed but it was slow, a police official said. Schools and colleges were closed in Maharashtra’s Nashik city on Tuesday following heavy rains over the last few days and people in flood-prone areas were asked to shift to safer places, officials said.
A part of the protection wall of a school building collapsed in Thane city’s Patlipada area when a tree from an adjoining housing complex fell on it on Tuesday afternoon, a civic official said.
No one was injured in the incident which took place on the arterial Ghodbunder Road. Four people were injured, including two critically, after a portion of a dilapidated residential structure collapsed in Pune city following heavy rains, fire brigade officials said on Tuesday. The dilapidated ‘wada’ collapsed around Monday midnight in Nana Peth area of Pune. Wada is an old cluster of houses with many rooms.