India, Aug. 19 -- Almost all 200 passengers were brought out by 9:15 pm by breaking the windowpanes of a monorail that was stranded for over three hours, and counting, in Mumbai on Tuesday, after it lost power supply amid heavy rain.

Rescuers first tried to tow the four-coach monorail - stranded on a curve on the several feet high track near Mysore Colony - to the nearest station with the help of another monorail, but the brakes remained jammed, officials told HT.

Truck-mounted scissor lifts were then deployed, besides cranes and ladders. Four buses were deployed to send passengers home once rescued.

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Astik Pandey, joint commissioner of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, said the ...