Heavy rains batter Thane, Palghar; villages marooned, NDRF helps in rescue ops

Heavy rains pounded Maharashtras Thane and Palghar districts adjoining Mumbai during the night and on Thursday morning which caused inundation and boulder crashes at various places disrupted train services and marooned some villages officials saidTeams of the National Disaster Response Force NDRF were roped in to rescue hundreds of stranded people they said Rail tracks at Umbermali station near Kasara were submerged up to the platform level and there were boulder crashes in the Ghat sectionTrain services were suspended district authorities said adding that work to remove the boulders was underway A bridge at Sapgaon in Sahapur taluka of Thane suffered extensive damage due to the heavy downpour tehsildar revenue officer Nilima Suryavanshi said adding that no one was injured and traffic movement on the bridge was suspendedThe Modak Sagar dam in Sahapur started overflowing at 324 am on Thursday and two of its gates were opened to release the water a message from the district headquarters saidSome villages in the Sahapur taluka were marooned Suryavanshi said adding that local authorities with the help of the NDRF rescued hundreds of people from those placesIn Bhatsai village which is located on a hillock stranded people could not come out and were shifted to a school in the locality she saidIn Vashind near Sahapur flood waters entered a housing complex and its residents were shifted to a zilla parishad school with the help of the NDRF the official saidIn Cherpoli some stranded people were rescued with the help of boats she saidIn Bhiwandi taluka of Thane a number of people stranded in the waterlogged areas of Padgha Kawad Ganesh Nagar and Khairpada were rescued with the help of the NDRF and the Thane Disaster Response Force teams tehsildar Adik Patil saidA number of people were also rescued from flooded localities near the banks of the Kamwari river in Bhiwandi another official saidIn Badlapur Wangni 10 people and 70 animals were rescued from an ashram officials saidMumbaiRainsWithMiddayMumbaiRains Train operations from Titwala to Igatpuri and from Ambernath to Lonavala were suspended after tracks were washed out boulders crashed and inundation and mudslides occurred at multiple locations Video credit Central Railway pictwittercomyBpFvZjP4Hmdash Mid Day mid_day July 22 2021Besides people stranded in some inundated areas of Kasara and Titwala in Thane were also shifted to zilla parishad schools they saidThanes regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam said they received 34 calls of tree falls in the city but no one was injured in the incidentsMumbaiRainsWithMiddayMumbaiRains Railway tracks between Badlapur and Ambernath have submerged resulting in temporary suspension of local trains between Vangani and Ambernath Video credit Central Railway pictwittercomIQ4HnwmaClmdash Mid Day mid_day July 22 2021Four trees fell in Datta Wadi area of Mumbra following which local firemen rushed to the spot As a precautionary measure residents of six houses there were shifted the official saidWater entered some houses at Ganesh Nagar in the wee hours and around 40 people were later rescued from there by the disaster response teams Kadam saidThe NashikJawhar route was closed following a landslide and operations there are likely to resume by Thursday evening Palghar Collector Dr Manik Gursal said in a message and asked people to use the TrambakDeogaonKhodala routeVarious places witnessed flooding in Vasai Virar and other locations in Palghar but no loss of life was reported so far officials saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever