Overview
- Heavy monsoon downpours on Thursday flooded large parts of Delhi‑NCR and neighbouring districts, producing deep waterlogging that led to multiple deaths from drowning, electrocution and falls.
- Children Pallavi (3) in Ghaziabad and Rehan (7–8) in Samaypur Badli drowned after slipping into rain‑filled drains and vacant pits that were submerged by floodwater.
- A security guard in Indirapuram and a 28‑year‑old man in Noida died after incidents that police are treating as possible electrocutions connected to waterlogged transformers and electric poles, and viscera have been preserved for forensic tests.
- Noida and Greater Noida authorities have deployed JCBs, pumps, super‑sucker machines and 24×7 quick response teams, opened helplines and issued notices for construction sites as police register FIRs and order post‑mortems.
- Residents are protesting and blaming long‑standing civic failings — uncovered drains, unstable slabs, choked sewers and poorly maintained electrical assets — a pattern that has also produced grave washouts and drownings elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.