Heavy rain lashes Mumbai; road and rail traffic hit

Mumbai - 28 June 2012 (PTI): In the first major downpour of this monsoon season, heavy rain lashed Mumbai since Wednesday night, disrupting vehicular and rail traffic.

The maximum rainfall was observed in suburbs, the Met department sources said.

Kandivili and Malad suburbs recorded around 45 mm rainfall on Thursday morning.

The Met department has issued a heavy-to-very heavy rainfall warning for the next 24 hours for Konkan and Mumbai coasts.

Colaba recorded 21 mm rainfall and Santacruz recorded 75 mm downpour till 9am, sources said.

TheCentral Railway trainswere running late by up to 30-35 minutes because of signal problem at various locations, CR spokesman said.

However, all suburban train services were running on schedule on the western line.

The flights were running normal at theMumbai international airportand there were no disruptions reported so far, sources said.