9 Month Pregnant Woman Among 1500+ Stranded In Mahalakshmi Express On Flooded Tracks

26th July 2019 was yet another dreadful rainy day in the history of Mumbai monsoon. This day brought back the dreaded memories of 26th July 2005, another disastrous day with rains making their adverse effects on normal city life. Between Friday and Saturday, close to 400mm rains submerged places around Thane, Palghar, Badlapur and Ambernath bringing life in all these areas to an absolute standstill.

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Also coming to a complete standstill was the Mumbai Kolhapur bound Mahalaxmi Express on the flooded tracks of Badlapur making 1500 and odd passengers absolutely helpless. All these passengers could see from their bogey windows was 3-4 inches of water surrounding them all around.

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Amongst these 1500+ passengers was a nine month old pregnant woman Reshma Kamble who was travelling from Mumbai to Kolhapur for the delivery of her child. To her worst nightmare her labour pains started while the train was stranded deep in water since 18 hours. Her panicky family members started making urgent appeals from D1 bogey seeking help.

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While Indian Army, Indian Airforce, Indian Navy and Disaster Response force launched one of the biggest rescue operations and rescued the lady in time and admitted her to the local army hospital, there were close to nine women on board in various stages of pregnancy in distress waiting to be rescued safely.

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While the armed forces successfully rescued all the passengers including these women safely and ended their 18 hour ordeal with a happy ending, this was probably the worst dream these women lived in their life. Local villagers and people were quick to respond and help these stranded passengers with food and supplies and helped them settle before arrangements could be made to help them reach their homes safely.

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While rains continue to pour and challenge the city and its citizens, pregnant women should definitely avoid venturing out in this season and take utmost care and precautions to stay healthy and hearty.

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