Mumbai: Vasai-Virar housing societies marooned, power cut off

MUMBAI: As rains lashed the Vasai-Virar region for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday, several housing societies were marooned as residents had to go without electricity and essential commodities.


Several areas like D G Nagar, H Colony in Vasai (west), Evershine City, Suncity, Nalasopara, were flooded with knee-deep water since Monday morning.

An 80-year-old woman, Nirmal Behl, passed away on Tuesday morning due to natural causes. According to a resident of her building, she had to be taken to the crematorium on a handcart since ambulances refused to come due to waterlogging.

At Kargil Nagar in Virar , the wall of a house collapsed early on Tuesday morning. Water had reached dangerous levels at the Mithagar area in Vasai, that tends to get submerged during heavy rains. Food supplies were provided to the residents of Mithagar as they were cut off from the outside world.

The Palghar sessions court suffered for the second consecutive day. Advocates at the court said the premises had been waterlogged since Monday. The heavy downpour on Tuesday made it worse, as documents stored on the ground floor were damaged or washed away in the rain.