On Friday, for the second day in a row, residents across Mumbai woke up to unusually thick smog in the air. The source of the smoke that seems to have engulfed most of the city is a massive fire that broke out at the Deonar garbage dumping ground in north-east Mumbai early on Thursday morning.
A couple of fire incidents at the Deonar dumping ground caused heavy smoke, which soon spread across the eastern suburbs, making breathing difficult.
According to experts on air quality, what was alarming was that at six location out of nine where air quality monitoring happens, the Air Quality Index was found to be ‘very poor’.
Image: Thick smog in Mumbai on Friday morning. Photograph: Shashank Parade/PTI
Image: Mumbaikars complained of poor vision owing to the smog, many taking to Twitter to share their images. Photograph: @DetectiveBatsy/Twitter
Image: One Twitter user wrote, "Where's the other end of the Bandra-Worli Sea link?" Photograph: @MihirBijur/Twitter
Image: One Twitter user took this photo as he was landing in Mumbai. It's a wonder that the plane was able to land in this smog. Photograph: @AnujGurwara/Twitter
