Mumbai: nineteen people died and five were seriously injured in Bharat Nagar slum in a crew after a landslide on the hill bordering the Barc complex and the next flush flood around 12:30 a.m.
on Sunday.
Even 20 hours later, the savior was trying to pull out four feared people still stuck in debris.
Three families each lost four members.
The incident has returned in the future the problem of illegal construction along the wall holder of the company in the city.
The deceased includes 11 women and eight men.
Five are minors, including two in their teenagers, a two-year-old child, four years old, and ten years.
The locals say that in heavy rain, water and dirt gush to the house of nearly 200 families.
The style swept the parts of the retaining wall in three locations, and the hillside was almost 50 brick hutmen and mortar collapsed under the rubble.
“It’s as if all hell breaks.
People have just slept after dinner.
Many must have been killed in their sleep,” said an eyewitness.
Most of the residents of the cottage house in the area are daily bets, plumber, carpenters, domestic servants and people who work odd.
Reacting to the allegations that the fire department and the National Disaster Response (NDRF) reached a late point, senior fire extinguisher officials said they got first call at 1.09 in the morning and at 2.15 the first morning the fire tender had started the rescue operation.
“After a higher level warning call at 4.38 in the morning, the fire extinguisher operation and NDRF began to swing full,” said an official.
NDRF officials denied the rumors of death due to electricity at the location.
Chembur and the surrounding area received very heavy rainfall, 241 mm, between 11 am on Saturday and 7 in the morning.
Minister of Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray called it “Mini Cloudburst”.
Questions are being raised about how Hillside Hutments, which appeared in 1999, were allowed to bordering the wall.
The BMC norm determines the minimum distance between the retaining walls and residence.
“Why is this norm not followed?” Asked the BJP leader Kirit Somaiya, who visited the place.
“This place is very risky so that other incidents can occur at any time in the case of heavy rain if the existing cottage does not shift.” The Chairman of the Minister of Uddhav Thackeray has announced ex-gratia payments of Rs 5 Lakh to the next relatives of every person who died and free medical care for injured.
Thackeray took stock of rescue operations and assistance in front of the city commissioner I S Chahal and requested strong coordination between NDRF, firefighters and police.
He said he would want the administration to be vigilant in the middle of heavy rain estimates.
CM has asked city authorities to ensure rainwater drainage from lowland areas, to keep the free road from water-logging and ensure the recovery of the earliest local train service.
He also said that medical facilities in Jumbo Covid centers should not be affected due to rain.
In a crew, those who fled telling their trials.
Rukhsana Khan, whose house was broken in the incident, said his six-year-old son played close to the door but because the door was closed, the debris did not hit him.
Laxmi Jogdandkar, who lives on the first floor, said he and his family were saved from strong rainwater because they were not on the ground floor.
(With input from SUJIT Mahamulkar)