Ahmedabad: The city received up to three and a half inches of rain in 24 hours, mainly during Monday night. This was the first substantial rainfall of Monsoon 2024 in the city. The monsoon-like feel in the air is now very evident and increasingly felt. The showers mainly occurred post-midnight and therefore didn’t affect the routine life of citizens. The city remained under dark clouds this morning. According to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), no underpass was closed, and all the gates of the Vasna barrage on the Sabarmati River were also closed. The rains varied in intensity across different areas. The highest recorded was in Naroda and Memco areas, which received nearly three and a half inches. DeshGujarat

Updates: Vasna barrage’s four gates were opened in 2ft size, with 6700 outflow and 250 cusecs inflow of water in river Sabarmati.

Two persons were injured in Saraspur based Somnath Nagardas chali due to fall of a neem tree. Trees also fell at Makarba, Andhajan Mandal, Ramdevnagar and Shyamal Char Rasta areas.

A bus stuck near Vhora na Roza due to water logging.

A 5 m by 1.5 m road settlement was observed at Manekbaug.

A vehicle stuck in a road cave-in in Krushnanagar area.

Cave-in of road was obsevered near Anupam cinema in Khokhra area. DeshGujarat