The Met department has issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Ratnagiri, and Sidhudurg districts in the Konkan region and Amravati, Bhandara, Gondia, and Nagpur districts in Vidarbha, predicting "heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few or isolated places" till 8.30 am Tuesday.

Colaba and Santacruz weather observatories for south Mumbai and suburbs, respectively, recorded 42.2 mm and 69.6 mm of rainfall between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm.

At 93 mm, the Nariyalwadi area in the western suburbs received the highest rainfall in ten hours ended at 6 pm, followed by 92 mm at BKC, and 86 mm in Khar East.

Civic officials said 50.20 mm of rainfall was recorded in the island city, 70.15 mm in the eastern suburbs, and 75 mm in the western suburbs till 6 pm.

In the bridge collapse incident at the Indramani River in Pimpri Chinchwad, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) successfully rescued 54 individuals, although four lives were tragically lost.

(With inputs from PTI)

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