As many as 33 people were killed in diverse incidents in Mumbai as the fury of the rain rocked city and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region since midnight, hitting road, rail, and air traffic for several hours, BMC Disaster Control said here on Sunday.

 As Mumbai snoozed peacefully, the skies suddenly opened up with thunder, lightning and heavy cloudburst-like rains measuring between 197 mm to over 235 mm in some areas, as per the India Metrological Department (IMD) Mumbai. The relentless downpour lasting 5 hours resulted in heavy water-logging in many low-lying areas of Mumbai and MMR, besides crippling road, rail and air traffic for hours. In the worst tragedy, a retaining wall of the BARC Complex here collapsed at Vashi Naka, New Bharat Nagar in the Chembur area around 1 am., crushing several homes and burying many people under the soil and rubble.

Till evening, at least 19 persons were reported dead and some more still missing with sniffer dogs deployed to trace them by the rescue teams. In another incident, at least 10 people perished when a few hutments caved in the Suryanagar slums in Vikhroli east.

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