Heavy Rain Causes Traffic Chaos In Delhi Region, Three Dead In Building Collapse
HYDERABAD, July 9 (Bernama) -- Heavy monsoon rains since Wednesday in India's capital, New Delhi, and its satellite cities have led to traffic snarls on major roads and caused waterlogging in many areas.
Normal life has been severely disrupted across the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), which includes the cities of Faridabad, Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad, due to rainwater accumulation, local media reported on Thursday.
At least three people were killed in Delhi’s north-western Rohini area after a four-storey building under construction collapsed on Wednesday following the heavy rains.
Torrential rain has battered various parts of India in recent days, with Mumbai among the worst-hit cities.
In a dramatic spectacle in Maharashtra state's Raigad region, 3,000 cooking gas cylinders were swept away from a bottling plant into the Patalganga river, videos posted on social media showed.
Thirteen rain-related deaths have been reported in Surat, in the western state of Gujarat.
Traffic has been disrupted on key highways in the northern state of Uttarakhand.
In the southern state of Kerala, three more bodies were recovered from the Wayanad landslide site, taking the death toll from Tuesday's disaster to six.
-- BERNAMA
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