Mumbai have been witnessing heavy showers for the past couple of days, as the city expects more rains in the coming days, municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on Thursday asked officials to stay prepared to tackle emergency situations and undertake rescue operations. Chahal held a meeting of the disaster management department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), according to the PTI.

The city is being pounded by rains over the last one week. On June 29, 19 persons had died in a building collapse in suburban Kurla.