India, Aug. 10 -- Monsoon rains turned deadly across Delhi on Saturday, claiming eight lives as the Capital's crumbling infrastructure buckled under intense downpours that submerged neighbourhoods, caused structures to fall, and forced waterlogged roads and underpasses to be closed.

Seven people, including two women and two girls, were crushed to death when a shrine wall collapsed onto shanties in the Jaitpur area of south Delhi, while a boy drowned after falling into an open drain in Khera Khurd in Narela, outer Delhi, police said.

The 78.7mm of rainfall that hammered the city in 24 hours forced authorities to shut notorious flood-prone underpasses and left more than 300 flights affected as waterlogged roads choked with serpentine traf...