Mumbai rain highlights: 16 killed, 21 rescued after landslide in Raigad

Body of one person was recovered while removal of debris taken up by the Mira bhayander Municipal Corporation.

Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council Ambadas Danve on Thursday demanded a survey of villages across mountain ranges in the state after at least 10 people were killed in a landslide in Raigad district.

This survey should be done on a mission mode, he tweeted.

At least 10 people have died in the landslide at Irshalwadi village on Wednesday night due to very heavy rains.

Danve said he reached the tribal village, located on a hill, after a climb and interacted with personnel from the National Disaster Response Force at the site. (PTI)

“Owning to continue and heavy rainfall plus threat of further landslide in dark Ops has been called off just now with consultation of Local Administration. It will resume tomorrow morning at 0500 Hrs,” read a statement by NDRF. 

Final figure for today is 16 dead bodies and 21 live rescue, it added. 

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and railway team were trying to find a six-month-old baby in the from 11 to 2pm who fell into a nullah yesterday near Kalyan station. The operation is closed now.

Search and rescue personnel at the site of a massive landslide in Maharashtra's Raigad district were facing hurdles due to the difficult hill terrain of the area where heavy equipment cannot be moved, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and officials at the site said on Thursday, reported PTI. 

The landslide, which claimed five lives, occurred late Wednesday night on a hilltop in Irshalwadi village after torrential rains in the area.

Seated at a village house in Nambrachiwadi, about two hours downhill from Irshalgarh wadi village which was buried under a massive landslide in Maharashtra’s Khalapur in Raigad district late on Wednesday, 45-year-old Durga Pardi and her 23-year-old son Mohan remain inconsolable. Read more

There is no rush of commuters at Thane railway station on Thursday as CM has announced holidays for schools and colleges.

Higher and Technical Education minister Chandrakant Patil paid condolences in legislative council to those departed in Irshalgad tragedy

He said that government had already announced a compensation of ₹5 lakh to kin of those deceased

Patil also said that they had planned to launch helicopters to ferry excavators to the spot.

There is nothing left except soil and debris, said a distraught man whose parents were trapped under the rubble of a massive landslide at Irshalwadi village in Maharashtra's Raigad district.

The landslide, which has claimed 10 lives, occurred late Wednesday night on a hilltop in Irshalwadi where the man and his four friends used to stay at night at a school located down the hill.

Narrating the horror, the man said at around 10.30 pm on Wednesday, he was sitting in the school room and chatting with his friends when he heard loud sound.

"I ran out of the school to save myself and later found there was a landslide which damaged our houses," he said.

"My parents are trapped under the debris. Now, nothing is left except the soil and debris at the place of my house," he said while fighting back tears.

Nobody was able to come out, he said.

The man also said he has a brother, who studies in a nearby ashram (residential) school, and he is yet to hear from him.

An anganwadi worker, who used to visit houses in the area, told reporters there were 45 houses at the site and 43 of them were affected by the landslide.

There were 229 people, including 25 children up to six years of age, staying in those houses, the woman claimed, adding she was shattered by the incident.

An elderly woman, who came from a nearby village, in a choked voice said five members of her family were trapped under the debris of the landslide.

As the search and rescue operation was underway at the site, relatives of the landslide-affected people rushed the spot to know the whereabouts of their near and dear ones. (PTI)

At around 11:00 AM, Bhayander Railway station (East), part of the building in front of the ticket window collapsed and 01 man was trapped in it. The fire brigade has succeeded in evacuating the said person. 

"The building had no residents living there because it was marked dilapidated. Only the people passing by on road were injured and none of them have serious injuries," said Dilip Dhole, commissioner Mira Bhaindar Municipal corporation.

Due to heavy rains, the Thane Upvan lake has started to overflow.

Rescue workers in India battled difficult terrain and bad weather on Thursday as they searched for survivors of a landslide that killed at least 10 people in a mountain village after incessant rain soaked the slopes, officials said.

A wave of extreme heat, wildfires, torrential rain and flooding has wreaked havoc around the world in recent days, raising new fears about the pace of climate change.

Shiv Sena's Thackeray faction MLA Aaditya Thackeray along with MLA Sunil Prabhu and MLC Anil Parab going to Irshalwadi in Raigad.

Two teams of NDRF, two groups of local trekkers and unskilled workers of CIDCO have been carrying out the rescue operation. Two helicopters of IAF are ready to fly at Mumbai airport, however , not been able to take off owing to bad weather, said dy CM Devendra Fadnavis.

Seven people have died in the mishap. 80 residents have been identified. The rescue operation is being done manually. We are facing difficulties in airlifting JCB and other machinery to the spot due to the bad weather, Fadnavis said.

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A fire officer who was part of the operation died of cardiac arrest, infromed dy CM Ajit Pawar

Since it is a hilly area there are no rescue machines like JCB available at the site. We are trying to air lift JCBs, said Ajit Pawar

CM Shinde and other few ministers are at the base camp around 2-km from the spot and monitoring the operation. Irshalwadi was not in the list of landslide prone areas prepared by the government, said deputy CM Ajit Pawar