Tag: deluge

Deluge, stampede, blaze: Why ‘29’ spelled doom to Mumbai in 2017

Mumbai was rocked by three tragedies in 2017 – a deluge, a stampede and a blaze — all on the 29th day of three different months. It started on August 29 when torrential rain brought the India’s financial capital to its knees, disrupting rail, road and air services, uprooting trees and leaving hundreds of Mumbaikars...

December 29, 2017

Doctor’s body found in seashore after Mumbai deluge

  Rescuers have located and identified the body of renowned gastroenterologist Deepak Amarapurkar, who went missing on Tuesday evening after falling into an open manhole during the Mumbai deluge, officials said on Thursday. Untraceable since he left for home in his car from Bombay Hospital, Amarapurkar had accidentally fallen into the manhole on a flooded...

August 31, 2017

Mumbai opens heart and hearth for deluge-hit people

In another display of Mumbai’s indomitable spirit, the maximum city opened its heart and hearth for millions left high and dry following Tuesday’s deluge — the heaviest rainfall after 2005. Several thousands of individuals, social groups, housing societies, Parsi sanatoria, gurudwaras, temples, mosques and dargahs, churches and NGOs entered the fray as the extent of...

August 30, 2017

Mumbai deluge claims five lives, dozen missing

At least five persons lost their lives in different rain-related incidents during Tuesday’s deluge when Mumbai was virtually paralyzed, officials said here on Wednesday. According to the BMC Disaster Control, a two-year-old girl, Kalyani Gopal Jangam, was crushed under a wall which crashed during heavy rains in Jankalyan Nagar in Vikhroli East. Her parents, Gopal...

August 30, 2017