Mumbai on rain alert: Flights hit, local trains running late; water pumps put on standby

Several local trains were held up or running late and bumper-to-bumper traffic was reported in many places across that's seeing heavy rainfall since last night. Water-logging was also reported from low-lying areas with pumps kept on stand-by to avoid trouble.

The rains have claimed two lives so far. Five people were reportedly injured when a tree fell on them at MG road, near Metro Cinema in Mumbai, yesterday.
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.

In another incident, a 65-feet compound wall of a housing complex in Thane city collapsed this morning, crushing two cars and another vehicle, he said.
The district received 229.81 mm rain in the last 24 hours, Kadam added.
n 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.

"Colaba has recorded 90 mm & Santacruz has recorded 195 mm of rain at 5.30 am. Heavy to very heavy rain to continue," said Indian Meteorological Department today.
The MeT department also said that continuous rain/thundershower is likely to occur in city and suburbs with heavy to very heavy rain fall at a few places in the next 24 hours. It has also issued forecast for next 48 hours.

"Intermittent rain/thundershower likely to occur in city and suburbs with heavy to very heavy falls at one or two places in the next 48 hours," said the weather agency.

Western Railway said that some section of suburban trains services are affected due to the ..
Some inter-state trains are also running late.

"Due to heavy rain between Virar and Surat all Mail express trains arriving at Bandra Terminus, Dadar Terminus and Mumbai central are expected to be arrived late," said the railways in a tweet.
The heavy rain affected the arrival of flights at Mumbai airport on Sunday for about 30 minutes. “The main runway was non-operational from 3.43pm to 4.17pm for maintenance,” said an MIAL spokesperson.