Heavy rains batter Mumbai: flights diverted, schools & colleges shut today
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Mumbai: Heavy rains flooded streets in Mumbai, causing traffic jams as the vehicles tailed back for hours leaving the financial capital in disarray.
In view of the heavy rains, the Mumbai municipal agency announced holiday for schools and colleges on Thursday.
It is reported that SpiceJet, IndiGo and Vistara announced flight diversion in posts on platform X with Vistara saying that its flight No. UK534 traveling from Hyderabad to Mumbai was returning to Hyderabad and another flight UK941, from Delhi to Mumbai was diverted to Hyderabad.
SpiceJet in the post on X requested passengers to check their flight status as ‘all departures/arrivals and their consequential flights may get affected’ from heavy rains in Mumbai.
The weather office predicted "extremely heavy rainfall" in Mumbai and neighhouring districts till Thursday morning.
Heavy rains pounded several suburbs in Mumbai for the past several hours with Mulund and its surroundings reporting heaviest downpour of all flooding low-lying areas.
It is reported that a woman died after falling into an open manhole and search is on to recover the body.
The IMD predicted that places including Mumbai, Thane, Raigad and Ratnagiri districts will face ‘extremely heavy rainfall and thunderstorms with lightning and gusty winds at isolated places’.