Maharashtra: Teen dies of electrocution amid rains in Thane

A 16yearold boy died of electrocution after coming in contact with a live wire amid rains in Kalwa of Maharashtras Thane city police said on FridayPTI reported that the incident took place in New Shivaji Nagar locality of the city around 8 pm on ThursdayThe victim Mandar Gouri suffered a severe electric shock when he came in contact with a live wire on the road and died on the spot an official said adding that the body was sent for postmortem and a case of accidental death was registeredMeanwhile a 45yearold man was swept away in a swollen nullah after slipping into it at Kalwa in Thane city of Maharashtra police said on FridayThe incident occurred at 1130 pm on Thursday they saidThe victim identified as Ramesh Taki was walking in Mahatma Phule Nagar locality when he accidentally fell into the swollen nullah and got swept away an official of Kalwa police station saidA search operation was conducted by the personnel of the local fire brigade and the Thane civic bodys Regional Disaster Management Cell RDMC but the victim could not be traced he saidSeveral nullahs in Thane were flooded due to incessant rains over the past few daysRDMC chief Yasin Tadvi said that Thane city recorded 16631 mm rainfall in 24 hour ending 830 am on FridayThe citys total rainfall so far this season is 224729 mm he said adding that during the same period the rainfall last year was 144397 mmAlso read Thane Man swept away after falling into swollen nullah in KalwaMeanwhile the authorities in neighbouring Palghar said the district received a total of 18510 mm of average rainfall till 8 am in 24 hoursThe intensity of rainfall reduced in Mumbai on Friday with the city witnessing only occasional spells of moderate to heavy showers till noonThe India Meteorological Department IMD has however predicted heavy to very heavy rainfall in the city during the day officials saidIncessant rains over the past few days raised the aggregate water stock in seven lakes providing potable water to Mumbai as it reached 68 per cent on Friday morning Of these seven lakes four have overflowed so far they saidAs the intensity of rain reduced no major waterlogging was reported anywhere in the metropolis the officials saidSome commuters complained that traffic on the Eastern as well as Western expressways was moving slow but there was no issue on the Eastern Freeway connecting Chembur to south MumbaiThe city traffic police said there was congestion on the SionPanvel highway in the morning after a chemical tanker overturned at Uran Phata in Navi MumbaiThere was no major waterlogging anywhere in the city as the intensity of rain reduced in the morning Most parts of the city have been witnessing mostly light rain with occasional spells of heavy rain a civic official saidThe IMD has issued a yellow alert predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall in the city and suburbs with the possibility of extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places he addedThere could be occasional gusty winds reaching 4050 kmph as per the weather bureaus prediction the official said