Weather & Science
Freak Storm Kills 14 After Giant Billboard Blows Down in Mumbai
- Disaster response team rescues 74 people from accident site
- Sudden extreme weather disrupts flights and surface transport
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A sudden dust and rainstorm swept through Mumbai on Monday, killing 14 people and injuring scores of others after a giant billboard collapsed in a suburb of India’s financial capital.
Beams from the advertising hoarding crushed a service station, according to the National Disaster Response Force, which said on X that the agency has rescued 74 people. Rescue workers struggled into the evening to free those trapped beneath the rubble.