Mumbai, nearby areas reel under downpour; girl drowns, rivers in spate, people evacuated
Mumbai/Thane/Palghar, Jul 19 (PTI) Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and adjoining Thane and Palghar districts on Wednesday, disrupting suburban rail traffic and causing water-logging in low-lying areas from where people were evacuated, while a 14-year-old girl drowned in a swollen drain.
A four-month-old infant slipped out of the hands of a woman walking on railway tracks and fell into a nullah between Thakurli and Kalyan stations in Thane district.
The Central Railway’s suburban train services on the Kalyan-Badlapur stretch in Thane district were restored after seven hours, officials said. Services on the Kalyan-Kasara route were up and running after nearly three hours
