Relentless showers batter Maha

Ten persons have died, hundreds displaced, crops spread across 12 to 14 lakh acres of land suffered damages due to heavy rains

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Rains pummelled most parts of Maharashtra Tuesday, leaving 10 persons dead, bringing Mumbai to a near standstill, damaging properties and crops, and prompting the authorities to shift hundreds to safer locations.

Apart from paralysing Mumbai and its metropolitan region, where train services and flight operations were affected, heavy rainfall battered Gadchiroli in Vidarbha region and Nanded in Marathwada region, among other districts.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who reviewed the flood situation with the disaster management department, said the next 48 hours would be crucial for Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts, which remain on high alert.

Eight persons have died in Maharashtra’s Nanded district which witnessed flooding due to a cloudburst-like situation, while Mumbai received a record rainfall of around 300 mm, the CM said.

He said crops spread across 12 to 14 lakh acres of land suffered damages due to heavy rains.