Mumbai Rains Leave At Least 10 Dead

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New Delhi: Death toll in Mumbai's torretila rains in the last 72 hours and the subsequent flooding has reached 10 dead, said police on Wednesday. While nine persons were washed away in separate incidents in Mumbai and the two adjoining districts, another man lost his life in a wall-collapse incident in Ghatkopar in Mumbai. "In Mumbai, the incidents were reported from Dahisar, Kandivli, Malad and Dadar areas," a senior police official said.

While two people were washed away in nullahs and another in a drain, one got swept away during Ganesh idol immersion, he added. In another incident, a man named Rameshwar Tiwari was killed after the wall of a power sub-station fell on his house in Asalpha village in suburban Ghatkopar," police said. His 35-year-old wife and nine-year-old son sustained injuries in the incident that took place in the early hours, they added.