Nearly 17 tourists stranded at Pandavkada waterfall in Navi Mumbai amid heavy rains were rescued on Wednesday, September 29.
Seventeen people, including nine women, had visited the Pandavakada Waterfall at Kharghar in Navi Mumbai for a picnic. They were stuck in the hills as the water level of a stream increased due to heavy rainfall on Tuesday, September 28. Officials from Kharghar and Kalamboli fire brigades later rescued them using iron ladders.
Moreover, hundreds of people residing in low-lying areas in the Thane and Palghar districts of Maharashtra were evacuated, said, officials. Though the two districts did not report any casualties, several houses were submerged in floodwaters and people were marooned, the officials said.
Hundreds of people were rescued by the fire brigade and Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) personnel, they said. Thane District Disaster Control Officer Anita Jawanjal and her Palghar counterpart Vivekanand Kadam said the two districts experienced heavy downpours which disrupted normal life and caused flooding in several low-lying areas.
Santosh Kadam, chief of the Thane Municipal Corporation's RDMC, said the protection wall of a hillock in Ulhasnagar collapsed, damaging some homes.
Two persons trapped in the damaged houses were rescued, he said.
The towns of Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Ulhasnagar and Palghar were badly hit by torrential rains and flooding. The gates of some of the dams supplying water to Thane and Mumbai cities were opened after their water levels increased due to heavy showers in their catchment areas, the officials said.
The opening of the dam gates and the flow of water into canals have not posed any immediate threat to people residing in nearby areas.
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