58 killed and dozens missing in Indian floods
At least 58 people have died and many more remain missing after torrential downpours in northern India swept away roads, buildings and vehicles.
Most of the destruction is concentrated in the state of Uttarakhand, where the Ganges river and its tributaries are flowing at dangerously high levels.
But India’s capital, Delhi has also been affected with the arrivals hall in the New Delhi Indira Gandhi International airport ‘knee-deep’ in water at the weekend.
Passengers waded through muddy waters to collect their luggage in Terminal 3 after the area around the airport received over four times the amount of rain as the rest of Delhi.
In a statement to India Real Time, the Delhi International Airport Ltd., the firm which runs the airport, blamed the flooding on "poor drainage in surrounding areas and the comparatively low elevation of the airport".
The water had now been swept out of the terminal but reports on social media suggest the airport is still in chaos.
"The situation is very grim. The meteorological office has predicted that the rain will continue for another three days at least," an official told the Daily Mail. Flood warnings remain in place in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
State authorities were also preparing to evacuate people from the worst-hit districts to relief camps, he said.
Several trains, including Sriganganagar Express, Hemkund Express and Janshatabdi have been cancelled due to flooding of tracks, a railway official said.
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