The building had been China Wholesale Double Jacket Hose unoccupied for the past nearly five years. At least two persons were also killed in rain-related incidents in Thane district, while a fire broke out in a British-era building at Fort, due to which a part of it collapsed, injuring two firemen during relief operations. Heavy rains also lashed Andheri, Bandra, Powai, Bhandup and Mulund. The Byculla police station was also flooded with water, and police officers were walking in knee-deep waters as they entered the police premises — so much so that the senior police minspector’s cabin too had water that was ankle high. A timely order to carry out the operation from a safe distance and the decision to withdraw water jets operating near the building a few minutes before the collapse averted a major disaster and loss of lives of the fire crew,” said a senior fire official.Also, at Prabhadevi, four persons sustained minor injuries when the roof of a four-storey building, Munji House, crashed late on Friday. Flights at the Mumbai airport were affected, with Jet Airways announcing delays of around 40 minutes for departures and 20 minutes for arrivals due to congestion and bad weather till 3 pm.A major disaster was averted as fire officials survived a blaze at Fort in the nick of time.The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corpora-tion’s claims of good monsoon preparedness rang hollow as the city witnessed typical monsoon water-logging, which inconvenienced scores of Mumbaikars.Mumbai: A 13-year-old girl, Drushti Mukesh Mungra, was killed after a tree fell on her at on SN Dube Road, Dahisar on the night of Saturday, when several areas were heavily inundated in the first heavy showers of the season

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