India, Aug. 20 -- With heavy rains continuing through the day on Tuesday, over 1,700 people were evacuated from low-lying areas across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). Several areas across the region were inundated even as operations remained suspended at factories inside the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) complex in Mahape. In Badlapur, a pedestrian bridge was washed away due to heavy rains while power supply was suspended in parts of Vasai-Virar as a precautionary measure. At least one person was killed while many others were rescued by fire brigade and disaster management personnel.

Vasai-Virar

Several areas within and beyond the limits of the Mira-Bhayandar and Vasai-Virar civic bodies were inundated on T...