Mumbai Rains: Wall collapses in Andheri East, one person trapped

Mumbai is once again being battered by heavy rainfall. The torrential rainfall has affected normal life in India’s financial capital, with water logging, traffic jams and flight delays. After a part of an upper floor collapsed in Shivaji Nagar, Govandi where eight people have been injured. Now a wall has collapsed at Andheri East in which a woman is reportedly trapped.

Check out the tweet here:

A wall has collapsed in #Andheri East in suburban #Mumbai , and one woman is reportedly trapped inside.#MumbaiRains #MumbaiRainsLiveUpdates #Mumbaikars pic.twitter.com/KKXUz5e6fo

— Arnav Agnihotri ( Akash Raj) (@akashRa67830129) July 8, 2019

The said incident took place at Paper Box industrial area in Mahakali.

Water logging is reported from different parts of the city that has added to the Mumbaikar’s miseries. BMC tweeted a while back, “Dear Mumbaikars, the city has experience heavy rainfall in the last couple of hours, especially in the eastern suburb. We regret all the inconvenience that has showered along. But the intensity is on decline now & our teams will try to pump out logged water as soon as possible.”

An accident on Lalbaugh flyover has caused major traffic jam.

Major accident at lalbaug flyover. Bridge may have to be closed for removing the truck which is dangerously hanging on the side wall.#MumbaiRainsLiveUpdates #MumbaiRain pic.twitter.com/DDZSvTZkWT

— Prakash S Walavalkar (@JustprakashW) July 8, 2019

A bike was swallowed by an open man-hole,

#MumbaiRain Gaping manhole swallows a bike in Chembur! What explains the carelessness of the civic authorities? @mybmc @Dev_Fadnavis a bigger tragedy waiting to happen? #MumbaiRainsLiveUpdates #MumbaiRains #CivicApathy @IndiaAheadNews pic.twitter.com/lAKhDhPS8u

— Sourav Sanyal (@SSanyal) July 8, 2019

Met Dept forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall for the next 24 hours. The heavy downpour has been attributed to the cyclonic circulation persisting over south Gujarat and Maharashtra. Along with the cyclonic circulation, there is plenty of moisture coming from the Arabian Sea. Collectively, this is causing heavy to very heavy rainfall over the region.

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