Tragedy Strikes Delhi Airport: Roof Collapses Amid Near-Record Rainfall, Leaving 1 Dead

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 A section of the roof at a terminal at India’s busiest airport in New Delhi collapsed after heavy rainfall on Friday, killing at least one person, according to local fire officials, the latest public infrastructure in India tested by the country’s monsoon season.


 A canopy over Terminal 1 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi partially collapsed around 5 a.m. local time, the airport said, which Delhi Fire Services said crushed cars, including some taxis.

The collapse resulted in all domestic flights being delayed or canceled, while Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, India’s minister of civil aviation, said rescue operations were underway at the terminal.

At least eight people were hospitalized with injuries and up to 12 cars were damaged in the incident, airport officials told Reuters.

New Delhi received nearly nine inches of rain in the hours leading up to Friday morning, which is more than the city’s average rainfall for all of June, according to the India Meteorological Department.

Renovations at the terminal—one of the busiest in India—were completed earlier this year, doubling the airport’s capacity to 40 million passengers annually. Kinjarapu told reporters Friday the collapse occurred at an older section of the airport, which was not part of the recent expansion, according to the New York Times.

Other public infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed because of severe weather in India in the last year. Last June, a bridge connecting Aguani and Sultanganj reportedly caved in because of “strong winds.” In March, a bridge over the Kosi River collapsed, killing one construction worker and injuring eight others. Last week, a 600-foot-long bridge collapsed. Heavy rainfall in an area near Nepal caused a 230-foot-long bridge to collapse, after a rise in water level increased the strength of the current of the river below the bridge, damaging one of its pillars.

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