Incessant showers clobber Mumbai; Colaba records heaviest single-day rain in 46 years
Mumbai has already recorded 64 per cent of its month-to-month quota of rain within the first five days of August.
Three persons, including two minors, were on Tueasday killed in two house collapse incidents in suburban Vikroli in the wake of torrential rains that lashed the megapolis, police said.
In the first incident in the hilly Suryanagar area, a house at a higher level collapsed on one below, trapping a one-and-a-half-year-old infant, Nikhil, 40-year-old Suresh Arjun Prasad Mourya and Kiran Baby Pal (25), a senior police official said.
They were taken to a nearby civic hospital where Nikhil and Mourya were declared dead before admission, the official said.
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At Varshanagar hill area of Vikroli Parksite, a protective wall collapsed on a house, killing two-year-old Kalyani Jangam on the spot, he said. Her parents Gopal Jangam (36) and Chhaya Jangam (30) suffered injuries.
They have been admitted to a hospital, the official said.
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