Heavy rains pound Delhi as monsoon arrives; airport canopy collapse
New Delhi: Monsoon arrived in Delhi with a fury in the early hours of Friday as heavy rains, the highest in a single day of June in 88 years, brought the national capital to a standstill leaving streets flooded, traffic caught in chaos and flight operations suspended at Delhi airport’s Terminal-1 due to a canopy collapse.
A cab driver died and six people were injured after a portion of the canopy collapsed on cars following the rains.
A 39-year-old man was electrocuted in Rohini’s Prem Nagar area after he came in contact with a live wire. Three labourers are feared trapped after an under-construction wall collapsed in southwest Delhi’s Vasant Vihar area.
IMD later said its Safdarjung Airport observatory recorded 234.5mm rainfall between June 1 to June 28, the third highest in last 124 years, according to the MET department.
While roads near busy areas like ITO, Saket, Moolchand, Aurobindo Road to IIT flyover, Barapullah flyover and Noida Sector 62 saw traffic jams due to waterlogging, one person died in a roof-collapse incident at Terminal 1 of Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) on Friday.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) defines very heavy rain as rainfall amounting to between 124.5 and 244.4 mm in a day.
