In Pics: As Rains Lash Pune, Cars & Bikes Get Washed Away

Residents stand next to damaged vehicles on a lane after floodwaters entered a locality following heavy rains on 26 September.

(Photo: PTI)

After around 12 people were killed in various incidents of flooding and wall collapses in Maharashtra’s Pune district, visuals of inundated localities crowded with damaged vehicles emerged on Thursday, 26 September.

Around 10,500 people from several water-logged areas were shifted to safer places following heavy showers in the district on Wednesday, officials said, PTI reported.

A man walks past vehicles piled up on a street after floodwaters from Ambilodha Nala (Sewage water stream) entered the Sahakar Nagar locality following heavy rains on 26 September.

Residents look at the vehicles that got washed away in floodwater following heavy rains, at Sahakar Nagar locality on 25 September.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that he was pained to know about the loss of life due to the rains in Pune and added that teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were deployed in the city and Baramati tehsil.

Residents stand next to damaged vehicles on a lane after floodwaters entered a locality on 26 September.

Residents stand on a roadside after floodwaters entered their locality at Sahakar Nagar on Wednesday, 25 September.

Vehicles are piled up on a street after a flash flood on Thursday, 26 September.

A view of vehicles washed away in floodwaters on 26 September.

Passers-by push a two-wheeler stuck in floodwaters amid heavy rain in the city on 25 September.

Schools and colleges in various tehsils of Pune declared holiday on Thursday in view of the deluge.

(With inputs from PTI)