IN PICS: Over 1000 rescued as heavy rains throw normal life out of gear in Thane

Over a thousand passengers on Mumbai-Kolhapur Mahalaxmi Express now has a memory that will be etched in their minds forever.

A bird’s eye view shows a flooded area following heavy monsoon rain in Thane district in Maharashtra Saturday July 27 2019. (Photo | PTI) 

Badlapur pedestrians wade across a waterlogged street following heavy monsoon rainfall on Saturday July 27 2019. (Photo | PTI)

Mumbai was lashed by rains on Friday and Saturday but the impact was nowhere close to the monsoon fury of July 26, 2005, when the city received 944 mm rainfall in a single day. (Photo | PTI)

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescue operations underway after Mahalaxmi Express got stranded on waterlogged tracks after heavy overnight rains in Mumbai on 27 July 2019. (Photo | PTI)

The Indian Army, Indian Air Forces, Indian Navy and NDRF launched one of the biggest operations to rescue an estimated 1,500 passengers stranded on the train with around 3-5 feet water on all sides. (Photo | PTI)

Many were rescued on the inflatable boats of the NDRF, others on shoulders of the personnel deployed and still others by wading across the flood. (Photo | PTI)

Mahalaxmi Express was marooned for almost 17 hours, with those inside, including nine pregnant women, fearing that the water level would rise and flow into the rake through the windows before help came in. It had left Mumbai late Friday night and got marooned near Vangani in the early hours of Saturday. (Photo | PTI)

A bird’s eye view shows Mahalaxmi Express bound for Kohlapur from Mumbai stranded following heavy monsoon rain near Badlapur in Thane district, Saturday July 27, 2019. (Photo | PTI)