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Mother, three children dead as Delhi rain, storm wreak havoc

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Mother, three children dead as Delhi rain, storm wreak havoc

Delhi-NCR experienced thunderstorms and rain on Friday, providing relief from the heatwave but causing disruptions such as waterlogging and traffic jams.

A 26-year-old woman and her three minor children were killed while the woman’s husband sustained injuries in Delhi’s Najafgarh area after their house collapsed due to a thunderstorm on Friday morning, police said.

According to a police officer aware of the matter, their control room received a call at 5:26am regarding a collapse in Kharkhari Nagar village in Jafarpur Kalan.

When police and Delhi Fire Services reached the spot, they found a tree had fallen over a room near the tubewell due to which the structure had collapsed.

The woman, her three children were found under the debris while the husband survived but sustained injuries.

Police said that the bodies have been shifted to a city mortuary for postmortem and further probe is underway.

Also read: Delhi rain, thunderstorms hit flights; airport issues advisory for passengers

Deputy commissioner of police (Dwarka) Ankit Singh could not be reached for a comment, and the copy will be updated whenever it is received.

An intense thunderstorm hit the capital in the early hours of Friday, leading to widespread waterlogging in the city and traffic snarls. Flight operations too were impacted in the early hours of the day, with at least three flights diverted and over 100 delayed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, officials aware of the matter said.

The article originally appeared on Hindustan Times
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