Twelve people have died in rain-associated incidents in Pune after a strangely heavy shower lashed the region since late Wednesday night. The downpour congested in the early morning hours on Thursday.
Police and district management has so far declared 12 deaths -seven from Pune city and five from adjacent villages. Exploring is on for four missing persons.
Schools and colleges in the city will continue to be closed on Thursday, reports ANI. Pune district collector Naval Kishore Ram ordered school closure in Pune and neighboring talukas of Purandar, Bhor, Baramati and Haveli.
Condoling the deaths, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said the state is on condition that all possible support needed.
“2 NDRF teams are located in Pune and 2 in Baramati, state government is also intimately monitoring the dam release,” Fadnavis said in a series of tweets on Thursday morning.
Rescue teams recovered the bodies from three different areas of the city.
Five bodies were recovered from Parvati- Aranyeshwar area, one body was found inside a car found floating in floodwater on Singhnad Road and another was found in a canal in Sahakarnagar.
According to fire crew officials, five people died when a compound wall shrunken in Tangewali colony. Water spilling over from a close canal caused the wall to collapse. At least 3-4 people are still lost in the incident.
Two of the five people who died in the wall crumple incident were recognized as Rohit Bharat Amle, 13, and Santosh Kadam, 55. The three other wounded include two women and a 9-year-old boy.
