A 15-year-old boy drowned in a swollen nallah and at least 18 persons were rescued in monsoon-related incidents, even as eight houses collapsed either partially or fully in various parts of the metropolis.
Mumbaikars prepared themselves for a wet weekend, as heavy rains lashed the Island city and suburbs since Friday night, inundating the suburban railway tracks, flood-prone roads and low-lying areas.
Civic officials said that two children – aged 15 and 12 years – fell into a swollen nallah while they were playing at Mulund’s Highland Park locality in north-east Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday. Of them, a 12-year boy Arbaj Hasan Ansari was rescued by the fire brigade officials, while another boy Aftab Irfan Khan (15) died.
Of the eight house collapses reported from various parts of the metropolis, the fire brigade personnel rescued 17 persons stranded inside the first and second floor flats of a building that partially collapsed at Khar (east) in north-west Mumbai.
The services on the Central Railway ( Main), Harbour and Western Railway were affected because of the water-logging of tracks at various places. The trains ran anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes behind the schedule.
While the island city registered a rainfall 58.2 mm during 24 hours ending at 8.30 am, the suburbs received 115.2 mm rainfall during the same period.
Meanwhile, the city weather bureau has forecast intermittent rains with “heavy to very heavy falls” at few places and “extremely heavy rains at one or two places” in the city and suburbs, during the next 48 hours.