Thursday, July 17, 2008

Heavy rain continued on Tuesday

Heavy rain continued on Tuesday deducted, floods and landslides claim at least 54 lives in Raigad district of Maharashtra and beaten normal life in Mumbai start, rail, road and air transport in the metropolis, in confusion.

The rains have cost 28 lives and 5000 people were in the safest places of Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.

The Board requested the support of the Army, Navy and the Air Force for assistance and rescue operations, he said.

Weatherman said in Mumbai, very difficult to strong rainfall for the next 48 hours with Feisty wind with a speed of 45 km to 60 km per hour.

At least 100 people are feared to have died in his sleep Jul village in Raigad district when large blocks of rocks have 20 houses with odd shaved, surintendant of the district police Rajkumar Vhatkar said.

Rescue operations in the village are not yet begun when the village was coupe rest of the country, he said.

Trento-four people were killed in an earth wall to Kondiwate. Three bodies have been removed from the wreckage, while rescue operations were still others appear to be victims crushed under the rocks, Vhatkar said.

The landslides killed eight people Roha, in three areas Poladpur, while six people were killed on Monday in landslides and drowning in the vicinity of the officials said. In Mahad, three persons were drowned when their car was taken away in the stream.

In Mumbai, rain paralyzed, road, rail and air transport to the suspension of long-distance and suburban trains, the key for millions of commuters returning home from offices. Even cell phone lines were hit hard.

The city airport remained closed since the afternoon due to poor visibility and the chances for a resumption of flights far seems that important aid in the landing and the instruments were also affected.

The aid for the landing as instrument landing system, picture-in omni-distance and equipment to measure the distance have been damaged, an official airport.

Even the radar Juhu aerodrome is "down", and as long as the situation does not improve May-flights resume, he said.

"As long as the instruments are dried, and we take a look at it on Wednesday, flights can not be recorded," he said.

He also spoke with pressure testing services (fire brigade) the areas could not be visited.

All domestic flights were diverted since the afternoon in Goa [photos], Nagpur, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Chennai, while some that are not started, he was asked to determine their effect.

The international flights, since no later than Tuesday evening, are also abused.

The airport director Sudhir Kumar, when contacted, said at the Sahar international airport was turned off as a security measure because of the floods under the control of premises where you are.

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