Heavy rains lashed the metropolis and Thane district throughout the Sunday night and continued on Monday, causing water-logging at several places and slowing the movement of suburban trains.
As the Southwest Monsoon picked up momentum since Sunday night, heavy rains lashed Mumbai on Monday that claimed four lives in the city and adjoining Thane.
Skymet, a private weather forecasting agency, predicted that the heavy showers will continue till Tuesday in Mumbai.
Heavy rains lashed the metropolis and Thane district throughout the Sunday night and continued on Monday, causing water-logging at several places and slowing the movement of suburban trains, thus major causing inconvenience to office-goers.
"These heavy showers are due to a cyclonic circulation over north Konkan and adjoining south Gujarat and another circulation in the Bay of Bengal. We expect the rain activity to increase in the coming week, with scattered heavy to very heavy rain on June 27 and 28 in parts of north Konkan, including Mumbai," an IMD official had said.
Major rainfall contribution came from Dahisar that recorded 241 mm, followed by Kandivali- 234 mm, Ghatkopar- 215 mm, Matunga -198 mm, Mulund- 194mm, Mahim/Dharavi- 191 mm, Santacruz- 181 mm and Goregain-175 mm
Two persons were killed last evening when a tree fell on them near Metro Cinema in south Mumbai, said an official from the disaster management unit of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
A 13-year-old boy was killed and his parents were injured when an adjacent wall collapsed on their house at Wadol village in Ambernath taluka of Thane around 2.15 am today, the district civic body's regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam said.
"Traffic is moving slow at Khar subway, Malad subway & Andheri subway due to waterlogging," Mumbai police tweeted. At around noon, the cops tweeted that both Khar and Milan subway had been opened once again, but cautioned that traffic was moving slowly.
In Mumbai, a huge part of a compound caved-in at Antop Hill area in Wadala. Around 15 cars were damaged with some vehicles getting buried under the debris, an official of the BMC's disaster management cell said.
People on Twitter have shared pictures of Malad that has already been submerged due to water-logging.
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