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At least 12 people were killed in various incidents of flooding and wall collapse after heavy rains battered Maharashtra's Pune district in India, NDTV reported, citing officials.

Condoling the deaths, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said that state government was closely monitoring the situation.

Nearly 10,500 people from several water-logged areas were shifted to safer places so far following heavy showers in the district on  Wednesday, officials said

Mr Fadnavis said he was pained to know about the loss of lives due to heavy rains in Pune.

The chief minister said teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were deployed in the city and Baramati tehsil, and all necessary assistance was being provided in the affected areas. Schools and colleges in various tehsils of Pune declared a holiday on Thursday in view of the deluge.

Five people sleeping at a dargah in Khed-Shivapur village, located on the Mumbai-Bengaluru National Highway, were washed away after the heavy downpour, senior police official Sandip Patil said, adding that two persons from Purandar area were reported missing.

Besides, five people, including a nine-year-old boy, were killed in incidents of wall collapse in the flooded Arneshwar area, chief fire officer Prashant Ranpise

"Over 10,000 people from low-lying areas in Baramati were shifted to safer places after water was released from Nazare dam, built on the Karha river near Jejuri," Mr Patil said.

Besides, more than 500 people stranded in low-lying areas of the city were also rescued, Mr Ranpise said.

"Rain stopped on Thursday morning, but many houses and residential societies in low-lying areas were still inundated. There were several reports of wall collapse and uprooting of trees in those places," another fire official said.

Pune district collector Naval Kishore Ram has declared a holiday in schools and colleges of Pune city, Purandar, Baramati, Bhor and Haveli Tehsils for Thursday.