Tree, wall collapses claim 3 lives in city
New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Continuous rainfall that started in the early hours of Thursday has once again left Delhi with mortalities, three this time, caused by a tree collapse in Kalkaji and a wall collapse in Basant Nagar. While a 50-year-old motorcyclist died on road in Kalkaji during the morning rush hour, two boys, aged 9 and 10 years, died in the evening when an old wall collapsed due to heavy waterlogging in the area.
At Kalkaji, the 50-year-old man died and his 22-year-old daughter was injured when a 50-70-year-old neem tree came crashing down on them during their commute on a motorcycle near Paras Chowk, in south Delhi's Kalkaji, during a downpour on Thursday morning.
The deceased was identified as Sudhir Kumar, of Tughlakabad, and the...
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