Mumbai Woman Stands In Rain For 7 Hours To Warn Passing Vehicles About Open Manhole, Loses Her Belongings

The ravaging Mumbai rains are causing unimaginable loss to many and far-reaching miseries to others. But concurrent with that famous “spirit of Mumbai,” some Good Samaritans have risen to the occasion and are doing their bit to save others’ lives. One such selfless act of courage went viral recently, when a video of a woman standing on a waterlogged street to warn passersby of the open manhole that lay beside her surfaced online. She apparently stood in the heavy rains for seven hours just to make sure no one lost their life in this accident.

The woman has been identified by Mumbai Mirror as 50-year old Kanta Maruti Kalan, who stays near Tulsi Pipe Road, Matunga West, where the video of her was captured. In the video, she can be seen signalling vehicles to be careful of the manhole she had uncapped to drain the water out. “I just did what felt right to me,” she said when asked about her selflessness.