Mumbai has seen 140 incidents of landslides since 2013 and the number has increased in the past few years. This year 29 people died after landslides in Vikhroli and Mahul in July.

The city has more than 290 spots that are prone to landslides and most of them are in the Eastern suburbs. The city witnessed massive casualties due to landslides in 2000 and 2005. On July 12, 2000, 67 people were killed when more than 100 huts were crushed in a landslide at Azadnagar in Ghatkopar. Another 78 people died in Sakinaka in the July 26, 2005 rain. At least 10 people around the same spot died due to a landslide in 2009. In a similar incident at Antop Hill, 5 people died in 2013.