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Mumbai rain: Citizens' woes in PHOTOS

Last updated on: August 29, 2011 16:12 IST

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Image: A man makes his way through a flooded street
Photographs: Sahil Salvi
Incessant rainfall has left Mumbai limping. Slow trains, waterlogging, bumper-to-bumper traffic, power cuts, landslides -- in the last 72 hours have put India's financial capital on the backfoot and exposed the civic authorities' lack of preparedness.

We bring you glimpses of what Mumbai is going through.

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Firemen search for survivors after a landslide near Heera Panna locality in south Mumbai

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A train travels slow on a submerged track at Sion

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Massive traffic jam at Dadar

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An aircraft lands at the Santacruz airport in the backdrop of an overflowing Mithi river

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A flooded Currey Road railway station

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Even the road outside the Currey Road railway station was flooded

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No they are not walking across a field, but a railway line. Photo taken near Kurla station

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Schoolchildren enjoying the rains at Ghatkopar.

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A woman selling vegetables on a flooded street at Elphinstone Road

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A crowded but flooded street in Elphinstone

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A flooded street in Dadar.

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