Heavy rains accompanied by strong winds ripped through Mumbai, the financial capital of India, on Monday, killing at least eight people, uprooting trees and causing power outages in many parts of the city, officials said.
The deaths were caused by a large billboard that toppled onto a crowd of people seeking shelter, a local official said.
Video on social media showed the billboard shaking in the storm before falling.
One witness, Swapnil Khupte, said that when the rains and wind started becoming worse, he and his friends had taken shelter at a gas station near the billboard.
When it collapsed, he said, many of the people trapped under it were women and children.
Persons:
Swapnil Khupte
Locations:
Mumbai, India, Ghatkopar