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Heavy rains lash Mumbai, adjoining areas; suburban services delayed

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After a brief spell of drizzle in the last two days, heavy rains lashed the city and adjoining areas this morning affecting suburban rail services on both routes of the Central Railway.

According to an official in BMC’s disaster management control room, despite incessant rains there have been no reports of any untoward incident in the metropolis in the last 24 hours.

Though heavy rains resulted in water logging in few areas of Sion and Hindmata area in Dadar in the city, it did not affect vehicular traffic majorly, they said.However, local trains on Harbour and Central line of CR were running late on Saturday morning.

Central Railway PRO A K Singh said, “Suburban services on Central Railway are running late by 10 minutes. But since locals are running on regular intervals, no major inconvenience was caused to commuters.”

In the last 24 hours, suburban Mumbai and adjoining areas received more rainfall than the island city.