Mumbai Live: Slab of metro rail bridge collapses in Andheri, many feared injured
5:15 pm: Previous instances of accidents on the Mumbai Metro line
NDTV reports that seven to eight people have been extricated from the debris and have been taken to a hospital.
But this isn’t the first incident to affect the construction work on the city’s first metro line.
In April this year part of a 400-tonne crane being used for work on the metro line, veered off the truck carrier and crashed on a portion of the Sarvodaya Hospital in Ghatkopar, says theMumbai Mirror.
5:00 pm: Rescue work still on
Television visuals show excavators being used to break the concrete slab as workers attempt to reach their colleagues who may have been trapped by the falling slab.
According to NDTV a 50 metre stretch of the bridge has collapsed near Hotel Leela in the north western suburb of Andheri.
This is the second accident on the metro line. In 2008, a machine that was working on the metro line had tipped over and collapsed, the channel reported.
Traffic has already been affected on the Andheri-Kurla road where the incident has taken place, so its perhaps best to avoid the road if you can.
The only saving grace perhaps is that there has been a respite from the rains which is allowing rescue work to proceed smoothly.
4:50 pm: Slab of under construction bridge for metro collapses in Mumbai, many feared injured
Not directly connected with the rains but a portion of a bridge of the under construction Metro link between the suburbs of Andheri and Ghatkopar has collapsed.
Many people are feared to have been injured after the concrete slab collapsed in the Marol area of Andheri, Times Now reported.
Rescue personnel have been rushed to the spot and are currently attempting to extricate people who may have been trapped. Most of those trapped are workers who were working on the metro line, the first of the city.
3:35 pm: Some sections of Central Railway still affected, rains continue
Central Railways are still struggling with operations to Kalyan which have been hit since morning due to the heavy rains.
It’s also apparently begun to rain heavily in Mumbai’s north western suburbs again. But so far it’s had no effect on the Western Railways or road traffic. Fingers crossed.
3:00 pm: Thane worse affected than Mumbai
Thane is getting far more rain than Mumbai is it seems and as a result, Central Railways is still more affected than Western Railways.
Here’s a picture tweeted by Mid-day of the situation in Dombivali which continues to be water-logged:
The city’s lifelines, Central and Western Railways are still operational though.
Here’s a video of the situation in Thane:
1:00 pm: Central Railways still affected by rains
A Mid-day report says that Central Railways continues to be affected by the heavy rainfall on the outskirts of the city but people have largely stayed away from traveling.
Low lying areas in the city are reportedly still experiencing water logging so road traffic is still a little slow. And yes the forecast remains for rains through the day. So it might not be a good day to step out without your umbrella.
12:30 pm: Rains reduce in Thane, railways and roadways in city unaffected by rain
Firstpost‘s Parag Shinde says there has been some let up in the rains in Thane and the situation seems to be returning to normal.
Trains may still run a little late on Central Railways but they will be operational. Western Railways has largely been unaffected by the rains in the northern suburbs today.
Road traffic movement while affected in parts is largely smooth. Looks like Mumbai might not have to suffer too much at the hands of the rain gods today. Hopefully.
11:10 am: Mumbai relatively unaffected, Thane feels brunt of heavy rains
Incessant rains for the second day in a row wreaked havoc in Thane district, cutting off several low lying areas and leaving thousands of people marooned.
According to district authorities, parts of many areas like Bhiwandi, Kopri, Naupada, Bhayander, Dahanu and Kalyan were completely inundated owing to continuous downpour during the last 48 hours.
About 10,000 people were marooned by flood waters in these areas and are being shifted to safer places, they said.
Also, non-stop rains have damaged roads in the district leading to heavy disruption in vehicular traffic on the Bombay-Ahmedabad road.
The Palghar police station in the western belt of Thane district was totally flooded, damaging various records. Other adjacent police stations including the one in Manor area was also cut off, making it difficult for policemen to operate.
In Tarapur area, a Primary Health Centre and quarters of the medical officer came under water following which affected health workers and patients were shifted to safer areas, officials from the district disaster control room.
In Mira-Bhayander, a portion of an old building collapsed this morning after heavy showers. However, there was no loss of life, police said.
In Maswan, a MSRTC bus carrying passengers got stuck in the flood waters of Surya River last evening leaving 30 passengers stranded for many hours, authorities said. PTI
10:50 am: Road traffic relatively smooth
Here are more reader reactions from Twitter. Road traffic is relatively unaffected by the rains which are now not as crippling.
And apparently Western Railways, which was running late this morning, is relatively unaffected today
10:20 am: Trains running late on Central Railways
According to ABP News, the road between Kalyan and Badalapur is totally closed for traffic due to rains.
The city’s civic body’s disaster control has said the forecast is that there will be heavy rains in the city today as well. However, while heavy rain has been reported in the city’s northern suburbs, central and south Mumbai have witnessed only light rainfall since this morning.
Firstpost‘s Parag Shinde reports from Thane that Central Railways are running late thanks to a signal problem in Kalyan.
Central Railways is running half hour late towards CST, he said. Trains have been halted between Ambernath and Badlapur due to water logging, he said.
10:15 am : Roads in Mumbai are relatively smooth sailing today with many Mumbaikars preferring to stay off the roads after a long journey yesterday through traffic. Here’s what one of our readers had to say on Twitter.
10:00 am: Mumbai received a whopping 15 cm average rainfall in 12 hours since 8 am on Monday, even as one person was killed and normal life disrupted.
File image of rains in Mumbai on 3 August. PTI
Some parts of the city received between four to eight centimetres of rains since Monday morning, raising hopes that the water deficit would be wiped out this year.
Several low-lying areas in the city and suburbs were waterlogged on Monday, slowing down vehicular movement and causing massive traffic snarls on both the national highways and other major roads.
In the evening, five people were injured in a house-collapse in Chunabhatti area of central Mumbai as torrential rains continued.
Water logging was reported from parts of Borivli, Kandivli, Jogeshwari, Andheri, Santacruz, Bhandup, Sion, Byculla and some areas in Dadar, Worli, Goregaon and Kurla experienced flooding.
Suburban train services were disrupted on the Western Railway, Central Railway and Harbour Line with average 20-30 minutes delays, hitting office workers and students.
The evening peak hour witnessed chaos with a signal failure at Santacruz-CST on the Harbour Line route and trains virtually crawling to their destinations. People commuting from south Mumbai to their homes in the suburbs were stuck en route and reached their destinations only after long delays of one-two hours.
Torrential downpour in Thane’s major towns like Kalyan, Dombivli, Vasai, Virar, Palghar and Dahanu led to flooding on the roads with vehicular movements virtually crippled for hours.
The weather bureau has forecast similar heavy to very heavy rains over Mumbai and other parts of the state for the next two days.
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