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Heavy rains caused the collapse of the walls of buildings in India, killing 27 people on Tuesday, and bad weather for the second day in a row disrupted rail and air services in the financial capital Mumbai. Officials were forced to close schools and offices, .
During the monsoon season, which runs from India in June to September, the country is experiencing fatal accidents as buildings and walls collapse, weakening weak-structure structures, Reuters reported.
A heavy fire caused a wall to collapse on a hilltop huts in the western suburb of Malad in an accident that killed 18 people, a fire service official said.
"Rescue work is continuing, we have saved more than 24 people so far."
Three people were killed when a wall collapsed in a school in the city of Kalyan, 42 km north of Mumbai.
In the nearby city of Bonnie, a fire department official said six people were killed by the collapse of the wall on Tuesday after a similar incident on Saturday, which killed 15 people, according to the agency "Reuters".
The rains fell by more than 300 millimeters in 24 hours in some parts of Mumbai. Water flooded the streets and railways, suspending some of the train services used by millions in the suburbs daily to reach their jobs.
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