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Police arrested 14 people for administering fake vaccine shots of salt water instead of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at nearly a dozen private vaccination sites in Mumbai. The organizers, including medical professionals, charged between $10 and $17 per dose. More than 2,600 people paid to receive the vaccine.
2021-07-4

Severe Cyclonic Storm Nisarga makes landfall south of Mumbai. This is the first time a tropical cyclone has targeted the megacity since 1891. About 100,000 people have been evacuated from low-lying areas in the western Indian states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, areas already hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-06-3

Rwanda confirms the country's first case of coronavirus, an Indian citizen who arrived in the country on March 8 from Mumbai.
2020-03-14

At least 17 people are killed in a building collapse in the Indian city of Mumbai with at least 13 injured and twelve people unaccounted for.
2017-07-26

An Air India aircraft maintenance technician is killed at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in India after being sucked by an Air India Airbus A319's aircraft engine during pushback.
2015-12-16

Two express passenger trains (12 coaches of the Kamayani Express; to Varanasi from Mumbai, or Bombay) derail, after being partially swept off a bridge while crossing flooded tracks in India's Madhya Pradesh state leaving at least 31 people killed and about 100 others injured. Related to this incident are monsoon rains and the end of a cyclone which have killed more than 100 people in India.
2015-08-4

Ninety-four people die, and 45 others are hospitalized, after drinking moonshine in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
2015-06-21

A building collapses in the Indian city of Mumbai, with at least three people killed and dozens trapped.
2013-09-27

At least four people are killed and 18 injured in a factory fire in the suburb of Dombivli in the Indian city of Mumbai.
2011-09-22

Floods hit northern India with transport services disrupted in Mumbai and 15 villages isolated in Maharashtra state.
2011-08-29