India, Aug. 19 -- All 582 passengers were brought out by 9:50 pm by breaking the windowpanes of a monorail that was stranded for over three hours near Mysore Colony in Mumbai on Tuesday, after it lost power supply amid heavy rain.
Another monorail was stuck near Wadala and had to be towed to the nearest station; all 200 passengers were safe, officials said.
In the incident near Mysore COlony, 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 passe...
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