Mumbai monsoon: Over a dozen vehicles crushed in landslide at Chunabhatti

The incident where the landslide took place is an under-construction site of a slum rehabilitation authority (SRA) project.

The incident took place at a time when piling work was being carried out by a private builder.

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More than a dozen vehicles including 10 two wheelers and five four wheelers got crushed by falling inside a pit caused due to a landslide in Mumbai on Wednesday. The incident was reported at Chunabhatti in the island city. The incident where the landslide took place is an under-construction site of a slum rehabilitation authority (SRA) project.

Senior officials from SRA said that a stop work notice has been issued to the private builder who was initiating the project. The incident was reported around 9 am near Vasant Dada Patil Engineering College at Rahul Nagar. As part of the construction work, the builder had excavated a portion of this plot to create piles for the basement.

Officials maintained that the piling work might not have been done in a proper way, owing to which the top soil caved in causing a landslide.

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A portion of the plot was also used by local residents for parking their vehicles and during the landslide, all the vehicles that were parked on this plot fell into the cave-in. The diameter of the caved in portion of the road was around 40 meters, the officials said. “Owing to the piling work the top soil of the plot on which the vehicles were parked became loose due the landslide that happened and all the vehicles that were parked there fell inside the pit,” said an official of SRA, who came for inspection.

Satish Lokhande, CEO of SRA, Mumbai told The Indian Express, “After the incident our officials have visited the spot. We have already issued the contractor to repair the portion of the road and the plot that have collapsed.”

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