India, July 11 -- Eight people were killed in Gurugram and one person was killed in Ghaziabad, officials said after they took stock of the aftermath of Wednesday's showers that caused widespread waterlogging and traffic chaos that persisted across parts of the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) on Thursday.

The deaths and civic struggles hours after the first heavy spell of rain this monsoon underscored the fragility of public infrastructure in NCR and the inability of decades-old drainage networks to tackle seasonal weather events.

Gurugram was the hit hardest with 133mm of rain between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. With most of the city's roads inundated, people had to wade through knee-deep water. A road caved in at 10.30p...