NEW DELHI, June 30 (Reuters) - The death toll from this
week's sudden heavy rain has climbed to 11 in New Delhi,
including four citizens who drowned in submerged underpasses,
the Times of India reported, while flight operations stuttered
in the Indian capital.
New Delhi, which endured one of its worst heatwaves in
history earlier this month, faced the biggest downpour in
decades on June 28, with rainfall in a single day surpassing the
city's average for the entire month.
The torrential rain caused a fatal roof collapse at one of
the three terminals of Delhi's main airport, disrupted flights,
flooded underpasses, and led to massive traffic jams, power and
water outages in parts of the city.
Nearly 60 flights were cancelled from New Delhi's main
airport in the last 24 hours, according to data from flight
tracking platform Flightaware.
Operations were largely normal on Sunday, with most flights
from the affected terminal diverted to the other two, an airport
official said but did not rule out possible flight cancellations
in the course of the day.
The Delhi airport is one of the country's biggest and
busiest.
Terminal 1, the now-closed terminal, is mostly used by
low-cost carriers IndiGo, operated by Interglobe Aviation
, and SpiceJet, and currently has a capacity to handle
40 million passengers annually.
An Indigo spokesperson did not comment on the flight
cancellations and a SpiceJet spokesperson did not immediately
respond to a phone call.