New Delhi — One individual was killed and 6 others injured early Friday morning when a big part of an exterior roof at Delhi’s fundamental worldwide airport collapsed as heavy rain and robust wind lashed the Indian capital.
The cover roof and big metallic assist beams that held it up crumpled onto the Terminal 1 departure forecourt at Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport at round 5:00 a.m. native time, touchdown on a minimum of 4 parked automobiles and killing a taxi driver in considered one of them.
Movies shared on-line confirmed a number of automobiles crushed beneath the massive beams.
Terminal 1 is the oldest at Delhi’s worldwide airport, nevertheless it was lately renovated and at present hosts about 1,400 flights of the IndiGo and SpiceJet airways per day. The airport’s Terminals 2 and three host different home airways, and worldwide flights.
Dozens of flights have been cancelled or diverted to different terminals after the roof collapse as airport authorities suspended all operations at Terminal 1, a minimum of via Friday.
India’s Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu introduced authorities compensation of two million rupees ($24,000) for the household of the deceased taxi driver, and 300,000 rupees ($3,600) for the households of these injured.
Kinjarapu additionally mentioned consultants would look at infrastructure on the terminal, together with all different airports throughout the nation, to make sure security.
The collapse got here as Delhi was battered by a torrential downpour with a thunderstorm. The capital acquired nearly six inches of rain in simply three hours on Thursday evening, and a complete of virtually 9 inches by Friday morning – probably the most rainfall Delhi has obtained on a day in June in 15 years, based on The Indian Categorical.
The monsoon rains that began lashing Delhi earlier on Thursday did present reduction from lethal warmth that has scorched the Indian capital and most different areas of the nation — and several other neighboring nations — since April, lengthy earlier than the standard onset of peak summer season temperatures.
India’s meteorological division has forecast extra “heavy to very heavy rainfall” for Delhi over the weekend.