On Friday, an SUV belonging to a bank manager and a teller in Faridabad flooded and sank, killing both of them. Due to the intense rain that Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) have been experiencing, the underpass flooded. According to the police, on Friday night, Punyashreya Sharma, the manager of the HDFC Bank branch in Sector 31 of Gurugram, and Viraj Dwivedi, the cashier, were driving back to Faridabad in a Mahindra XUV700. They arrived at the Old Faridabad railway underpass and noticed that it was flooded, but they were unable to determine the exact level of the water.
After the SUV started getting submerged, the two men tried to get out of the vehicle and swim to safety, but drowned. Police officials said a team reached the underpass on getting information about an SUV being stuck there and while Sharma’s body was pulled out of the vehicle, Dwivedi’s body was found only at 4 am on Saturday after an hours-long search.
For the second day in a row, Delhi and the National Capital Region saw persistent heavy rain on Friday. The India Meteorological Department had issued an orange signal for severe to very heavy rainfall for both Thursday and Friday in Delhi. The precipitation was being caused, according to the weather office, by a depression over southwest Uttar Pradesh. On Friday, there were reports of waterlogging and traffic congestion in a number of NCR areas. The impacted regions in Gurugram included IFFCO, Rajiv, and Hero Honda Chowks.
On Saturday, there were further rain showers, and there is a yellow alert in effect for moderate rainfall. Over 1,000 mm of rain fell in Delhi this month, the most since 2021 and the second most in at least ten years, according to IMD data.
