Two Dead As Heavy Rain Floods Roads In Delhi

The Safdarjung Observatory provides representative figures for the city, recorded 4.9 mm rainfall. The Palam weather station gauged 3.8 mm precipitation

NEW DELHI| Two people have reported death as heavy rain flooded some of the roads and localities in Delhi this morning.

Delhi: The national capital received heavy rainfall this morning. Visuals of waterlogged streets from Minto Road area. pic.twitter.com/0VpCTPbu5d

— ANI (@ANI) July 19, 2020

A person’s body was found floating in water near the road under the national capital’s iconic Minto bridge that was seen heavily flooded. The body of the pick-up truck driver was spotted by a trackman working at New Delhi yard.

Ramniwas Meena was quoted as saying by the news agency ANI, “I spotted the body while I was on duty at the tracks. I came down, swam and retrieved it. The body was floating in front of a bus.”

Delhi: A body was found near waterlogged Minto Bridge today. It was retrieved by a trackman working at New Delhi yard. Trackman Ramniwas Meena says, "I spotted the body while I was on duty at the tracks. I came down, swam & retrieved it. The body was floating in front of a bus." pic.twitter.com/NUtXcROgsc

— ANI (@ANI) July 19, 2020

Another man, 55, was electrocuted to death in Delhi’s Jahagirpuri area. The rain and cloudy skies also led to a dip in the temperature. Many people shared videos and images od Facebook and Twitter.

Till 5:30 AM, the Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative figures for the city, recorded 4.9 mm rainfall. The Palam weather station gauged 3.8 mm precipitation.

Kuldeep Srivastava, head of the Met department’s regional forecasting centre, said, “Moderate to isolated heavy rains were witnessed in parts of Delhi-NCR.”

Earlier, the weather office had predicted isolated heavy to very heavy rain over parts of northwest India. It has said the “entire monsoon trough is most likely to shift northwards, closer to the foothills of the Himalayas during July 19-20”.