Mumbai rains: Ten families relocated after landslide

THANE: As many as ten families had to be evacuated and shifted to safer locations in two incidents of landslides reported in different parts of the city as the city recorded 130mm rainfall between midnight and 5pm, Monday, officials informed.
In the first, 25 residents from four families staying along the hillsides in Lokmanya Nagar area of Thane had to be moved out after a notable volume of soil got dislodged from the slopes, around noon, and started sliding down threatening to damage their houses, Yasin Tadvi, in-charge at the Thane regional disaster management cell informed.
In another incident, a huge portion of land and around 50feet long boundary wall of the forest department residential quarters adjoining an under-construction building site in Naupada suddenly caved in necessitating evacuation of few structures as precaution. The cause of the cave-in is being investigated, officials informed.
In another incident, a toddler and his mother suffered injuries after a part of the ceiling plaster of their living room peeled off and collapsed in their third floor flat located in a 35 year old building in Padwal nagar area around 6am. The mother-son duo was sleeping afar and escaped with minor injuries, officials said. The structure was earlier declared in C2B category wherein repairs needed to be conducted for strengthening it.
The heaviest rainfall of 46mm was reported between 3.30-4.20am, officials informed, leaving several areas like Tembhi naka, parts of Ambedkar road in Uthalsar waterlogged.
Meanwhile, special civic transport bus services were operated between Thane station and Mulund for the convenience of stranded passengers after Central Railway services were temporarily suspended towards Mumbai, Monday morning, said newly elected Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske while taking a review of ongoing rescue works.
“We have deployed staff round the clock to attend to any rescue calls. Complaints of water logging and tree falls are being attended to promptly and we have also directed the corporation to fill up potholes on priority,” Mhaske said.