Thane News: Thane Locals Swim Through Flooded Underpass To Save Stranded Car Passengers

Stuck in the middle of a flooded underpass inside their almost submerged car, two people in Maharashtra's Thane district were rescued by locals who swam to the middle and pushed the car to allow their exit from it. A video of the rescue from the underpass that connected Thane district's Narivali and Uttarshiv villages showed the car stuck in the rainwater, with around a feet of open space in the front of the vehicle. Two locals are then seen swimming up to the car, after which one local climbed up on the rear of the car and pushed it down to allow it to move to safety. After the car did not move much, the two passengers came out of the windows and swam towards the road. The incident came on a day Thane, Mumbai, Palghar, Navi Mumbai, Raigad and many other districts in Maharashtra saw heavy rainfall, causing schools and colleges to shut. Roads were waterlogged, trains and flights were impacted and traffic came to a halt. In Thane district, heavy downpours triggered a landslide in a hilly area in Kalyan damaging four houses.