Falling roof pillars smash cars at Delhi airport

A extortion astatine Delhi airdrome has collapsed aft dense rain, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and injuring respective more.

Videos online amusement immense pillars supporting the extortion smashing into cars parked on the airport's Terminal 1.

All departures from the terminal person been temporarily suspended and check-in counters person been closed.

The incidental took spot astatine 05:00 (23:30 GMT Thursday), the authorities say.

Rescue operations are nether mode astatine the airdrome and the injured are being treated successful hospitals.

The terminal underwent a monolithic renovation astatine the outgo of billions of rupees and was inaugurated successful March.

Heavy rains person lashed Delhi since Thursday, providing a much-needed respite from sweltering temperatures that the Indian superior was experiencing.

However this has led to waterlogging successful immoderate areas.

India's meteorological section forecasts that the metropolis volition proceed to spot "heavy to precise dense rainfall" implicit the weekend.