The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for Delhi, forecasting partly cloudy skies with the possibility of thunder and lightning today, and has predicted rain on Monday.
The weather office has predicted thunderstorms accompanied by rain in the national capital over the coming week, with maximum and minimum temperatures expected to settle at 38 and 27 degrees Celsius, respectively.
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The warning comes on the heels of heavy downpour accompanied by a strong windstorm on Saturday, which claimed four lives in two separate incidents of wall collapses. In central Delhi’s Paharganj, three men lost their lives and one was injured when the wall of an under-construction basement collapsed, also damaging part of the tin roof at a newly built RRTS station.
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Former Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi expressed sorrow over the incident. AAP MLA Imran Hussain, who visited the site, stated that the district magistrate has been directed to provide compensation to the victims’ families and initiate an inquiry into the matter.
Another man was killed and his partner injured when a wall collapsed during welding work at a building in the Prahladpur area under the jurisdiction of Shahbad Dairy police station. According to the police, the deceased has been identified as 35-year-old Ashok Kumar, while the injured individual is Sumit Kumar.
A section of the steel roof at New Ashok Nagar station on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor was also damaged due to the heavy rain, news agency PTI reported.
Meanwhile, over the next few days, several parts of India will experience widespread rain, thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds. These include regions of Northeast India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura), South India (Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, Lakshadweep), Western India (Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada), Central and Eastern India (Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Bihar), and parts of the Northwest and Northern states (Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi).
