<span style="color: #222222;">Heavy rains, lashing Mumbai have claimed at least two lives after security guards, employed at Nathani Residency, a highrise building in Agripada got stuck inside the lift and died.<br />''<br />''32 year old Jamir Ahmed Sohanan and 37 year old Shehzad Mohammed Siddhique Memon had taken the lift to the basement to open the water supply valve but with the basement being flooded, water gushed inside the lift and the two could not step out.<br />''<br />''Fire brigade personnel had to cut open the upper portion of the lift to pull out their bodies.<br />''<br />''Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department has forecast heavy rainfall at isolated places over the period of next 24 hours.<br />''<br />''IMD Mumbai's Deputy Director General K S Hosalikar has informed that there is dense cloud formation over Konkan region that includes Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Palghar districts.<br />''<br />''Earlier today, Mumbai recorded its fourth highest rainfall since 1974, throwing normal life completely out of gear, with rail traffic being suspended for hours and road traffic moving at a crawling pace.<br />''<br />''As per the latest s, trains on Western route are running smoothly while services between Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and Dadar on central line and Mumbai CSMT and Vashi on the Harbour lines remain suspended.<br />''<br />''At the civic-run Nair Hospital in central Mumbai, the COVID-19 outpatient department set up in a temporary shed in the compound was shifted to the casualty ward inside the building due to waterlogging.<br />''<br />''Normal OPD was suspended and only emergency cases were being attended.<br />''<br />''The Bombay High Court also suspended hearings, including all virtual hearings, scheduled for the day, in view of the heavy rainfall in the city and suburbs.<br />''<br />''The state government , in the meantime, has asked  five teams of the National Disaster Response Force to remain on standby.</span>