Mumbai gutter swallows scooter, video goes viral

Mumbai: In a video going viral, a scooter can be seen getting completely submerged in a gutter in Chembur here. Heavy rains have caused widespread waterlogging in and around Mumbai.

Like every year, rains caused havoc in and around Mumbai. Severe water-logging was witnessed across many places. In one such case, an open manhole gutter in Chembur was filled with rainwater. And the gutter swallowed the scooter.

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In the video, a person is seen trying to pull out the bike but failing at it. Others rush in to help. And finally, with the help of three more people, the scooter comes out.

#MumbaiRain: open #manhole swallows a #scooty in #Chembur#MumbaiRainsLiveUpdates #MumbaiRains #MumbaiRainlive #mumbaimonsoon #Mumbai pic.twitter.com/o6kdlEtP4l

— S. Imran Ali Hashmi (@syedimranhashmi) July 8, 2019

As soon as the Mumbai video went viral, there was severe outrage on Twitter. Mumbai denizens criticized Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for their apparent negligence.

this IS the bigger tragedy, anything bigger will be murder

— Broufus (@Broufus) July 8, 2019

https://twitter.com/_CommonCitizen/status/1148114135642595328

This is crazy. #BMC needs to be stricter & need to punish those employees who left the manhole open like this #MumbaiRains #MumbaiRainsLiveUpdates #MumbaiRainsLive

— Dhiraj (@Dhiraj_d009) July 8, 2019

What is wrong with you BMC? This is heights of apathetic behaviour.#MumbaiRains

— Karan Bhatia (@KaranBhatia_) July 8, 2019

https://twitter.com/asapscrapme/status/1148113047531089921