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Many areas in Mumbai under water

Special Correspondent

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BRAVING IT TOGETHER: People help each other while wading through a waterlogged railway station in Mumbai on Saturday.

MUMBAI: As heavy rain pounded Mumbai, Matunga, Bandra, Andheri, Wadala, Chembur, Ghatkopar, Borivali, Lower Parel and Malad came under water. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) identified 14 flooding points in the city and suburbs.

All were under several feet of water and several hundred families evacuated.

The Mithi, Poiser and Dahisar rivers flooded slums on the banks and their dwellers were evacuated.

The BMC had advised people not to venture out till 5 p.m. as it feared that high tides in the afternoon could play havoc in the central and northern suburbs if rain continued.

Sources in the civic body said that it ran all pumping stations to increase storm water outflow before the high tides. Fortunately, the rain relented in the afternoon.

A spokesperson for the Weather Bureau said that in the 24-hour period ending 8.30 a.m. on Saturday, downtown Mumbai received 146.8 mm of rain and the suburbs 174.1 mm.

The Bureau recorded 39.3 mm till 5.00 p.m. in the city and 254.6 mm in the suburbs.

The forecast for the financial capital of the country for the next 24 hours is “heavy to very heavy to extremely heavy rain.”

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