Delhi: Auto driver, woman killed in Sunday rain damage, five others injured

Delhi: Auto driver, woman killed in Sunday rain damage, five others injured

New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) A 30-year-old woman died in north Delhi's Subzi Mandi of a wall collapse while an auto rickshaw driver died in Rohini after a tree fell on his vehicle following heavy rain in the national capital on Sunday, police said. Five other people were injured in separate incidents, police said, all caused by the record-breaking downpour the city saw during the day.

Priti, a resident of Sonepat's Gannaur, was killed when a dilapidated portion of a wall of a veterinary hospital collapsed on her in the Subzi Mandi area, police said. Priti was with a girl, who too sustained wounds when she came under the wall.

The accident took place around 5 pm when Priti was going to relieve herself with the girl, they said.