Mumbai:A day after heavy showers pounded Mumbai, the rain intensity reduced briefly on Monday morning but picked up momentum again during the day, causing water-logging at some places and disruption of local train services on the Central Railway route, officials said. On Sunday, 30 people were killed in the metropolis in rain-related incidents, including 19 in the Mahul area of Chembur where a retaining wall collapsed on some houses after a landslide.
On Monday, no fresh death was reported, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. However, after a brief spell of reduced intensity in the morning, the rains picked up the pace again during the day, causing inundation in some areas. Local train services on the Central Railway's slow line were suspended for about half an hour around 3 pm on Monday due to flooding on tracks between Kalwa and Mumbra stations in neighbouring Thane district, CR's chief spokesperson Shivaji Sutar said.
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The services were later restored on the slow corridor by 3.35 pm, he said. Earlier in the day, water-logging occurred between Vikhroli and Bhandup rail section following heavy showers in parts of the suburbs, Sutar said. The suburban train services were suspended in that section of the mainline from 10.35 am to 10.50 am as a precautionary measure, he said. The station yard in Thane was also inundated and as a result, trains were running slow, railway sources said.
A rail activist said the CR's suburban train timetable was disturbed due to water-logging between Vikhroli and Bhandup section as well as at Thane station. According to some passengers, there was a bunching of trains on the CR route near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in south Mumbai. Trains were taking at least 30 minutes to cover the distance between Byculla to CSMT, as against the usual time of 10-12 minutes, they said.