3 dead, 95 evacuated amid heavy rains

Mumbai: Heavy rains continued to lash parts of Maharashtra, leading to the death of three persons in related incidents over the past 24 hours and the evacuation of 95 people from flooded places, the state government 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, a disaster management department report said.

Of the three deaths in the last 24 hours in Maharashtra, two persons were killed after a structure collapsed in a Mumbai suburb, while one person drowned in the Gadchiroli district in east Maharashtra, 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.

After light showers for a couple of days, heavy rains returned to Mumbai on Monday night. The city and suburbs witnessed incessant showers on Tuesday morning, causing water logging at some places.

The island city (south Mumbai) received 42.42mm of rainfall in the 24 hours till 8 am on Tuesday as against 12.04mm the day before.

As per the Met department’s categorization of rainfall, precipitation above 204.5mm in 24 hours is recognized as extremely heavy rainfall, the report said.