With the weather department’s forecast taking shape in the national capital, Delhi is seeing showers of heavy rain over various parts of the city on the morning of 19th July. Houses in a slum area in the posh ITO area collapsed as a drainage canal running through them overflowed due to the water.
Users on social media are sharing the vivid videos of the scenario of the slum and nearby affected areas. Rainwater can be seen gushing inside the basement of a house that was under construction due to the overflowing sewage water.
In one of the viral videos shared on networking platforms, residents of the slum can be heard screaming while people recording the video and watching the tragedy unfold try to ensure that no one stays in the toppling houses.
The shocking video shows a housebreaking down brick-by-brick and then all together after flows into its basement and then pulls the entire entity together with itself. The house crumbles into a pile of debris as sewage drain water takes it away and leaves behind traces that remind of the building’s existence.
NDTV reported officials saying that there wasn’t anyone present in the building before it got washed away. Moreover, Centralized Accident and Trauma Services (CATS) and fire engines were present at the spot.
In terms of loss of human life, two men have been reportedly died due to the rain.
Earlier today, a man’s body was found floating in the waterlogged area under the infamous Minto bridge in Delhi. The body belonged to a pick-up truck driver that was seen by a trackman working in the Delhi yard. He spotted it while he was working at the tracks.
Ramniwas Meena, the trackman, was reported saying, “I came down, swam, and retrieved it. The body was floating in front of a bus.”
Pertaining to another unfortunate incident, a 55-year old man got electrocuted to death in the national capital’s Jahagirpuri area.
Moreover, one viral video shows a bus stuck under the Minto Bridge due to the waterlogged region. Personnel from the Fire Department can be seen rescuing the people who were on-board.
The body which serves representative numbers related to the showers, Safdarjung Observatory recorded 4.9mm rainfall in Delhi till 5.30 in the morning while the Palam weather station measured 3.8mm precipitation.
The weather office had predicted heavy to very heavy rain over parts of northwest India. “The entire monsoon trough is most likely to shift northwards, closer to the foothills of the Himalayas during July 19-20,” it had said.
With each passing year, the national capital records an increase in the rainfall compared to the previous year. Along with relief to the farmers and rise in the groundwater levels, such extreme episodes of downpour leads to devastating incidents as well.
