India, May 27 -- Wall collapses, tree falls, and a minor landslide followed heavy rains in the city on Monday. At 9.51am, a wall and a second-floor staircase of the Haji Kasam chawl building on Pitambar Lane, Mahim, collapsed. The building was old and in dire need of repair, cessed under MHADA, said locals in the area. Two senior citizen residents were trapped on the second floor and were rescued by the fire bridge.

At around 2pm, the hilly structure touching the back of Ruby Hills, another MHADA-cessed building on Ridge Road, and facing Walkeshwar Road, broke out. As the rocks spilt out on the road, the residents of the ground-plus-two-storeyed building quickly evacuated and were safe.

"The residents and shopkeepers are safe," said San...