Heavy showers pound Mumbai, Thane; 5 killed in rain-related incidents

Mumbai, June 25 : The southwest monsoon picked up momentum in Mumbai, bringing heavy showers that claimed five lives in the city and adjoining Thane, officials said on Monday.
Heavy rain lashed the metropolis and Thane district throughout the night and continued on Monday morning, causing water-logging at several places and slowing the movement of suburban trains, thus causing inconvenience to office-goers.
Two people were killed on Saturday 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 on Monday, 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 on Sunday morning, crushing two cars and another vehicle, he said. The district received 229.81 mm rain in the last 24 hours, Kadam added. 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.