Heavy and overnight rains killed 15 people and injured 4 in two separate incidents of landslide and house collapse in Mumbai. City and its suburbs received heavy rainfall overnight and several houses, streets and railway tracks were flooded even as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast more rains on Sunday. Waterlogging was also reported on the Eastern Express Highway at Chunabhatti area on Sunday morning.
State tourism minister Aaditya Thackeray has said that the situation is being monitored. "As of 3 am, rainfall measured by IMD. Some places have crossed 200 mm now. Mumbai has faced an extremely intense system of precipitation accompanied by thundering. The BMC pumps are operational and officers are on ground," Thackeray tweeted. North Konkan districts of Palghar, Thane and Raigad are on alert. The India Meteorological Department's (IMD's) Regional Meteorological Centre has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in Mumbai during the day. The IMD has also forecast showers in central Maharashtra on July 18 and 19. "Isolated extremely heavy rainfalls very likely over Ghat areas of central Maharashtra on 18th and 19th," IMD tweeted.