116 people rescued from Khargar hills in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai

According to the police, entry to the Kharghar Hills and Pandavkada waterfall in Panvel area has been restricted owing to accidents during monsoon in the past. 



Police and fire brigade personnel have rescued as many as 116 tourists, including 78 women and five children, after they got stranded at Kharghar Hills in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai on Sunday.



According to the police, entry to the Kharghar Hills and Pandavkada waterfall in Panvel area has been restricted owing to accidents during monsoon in the past. However, on Sunday, people from nearby areas managed to evade police and trek to the hills from sector 5 in Kharghar. The police said due to heavy rain the water level of a stream behind the golf course increased due to which the tourists got stranded. Heavy rains in that area led to the stream swelling, leaving the revellers on the hills. The police and the fire brigade officials rescued them using an iron ladder and a plastic rope. The rescue operation started a little after 5pm and it continued for two hours, the police said.

“These revellers were from different places of Navi Mumbai and Mumbai. They went to the hills by crossing the stream earlier in the day. However, due to heavy rainfall the stream got swollen, making it impossible for them to return. We managed to rescue all of them with the help of fire brigade personnel. No one suffered injuries in the rescue operation”, said Shatrughna Mali, senior inspector of Kharghar police station.

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