5 killed, 10 injured in rain-related incidents in Greater Noida

Five people, including three children and a woman, were killed and 10 others injured in rain-related incidents in Greater Noida within 24 hours, officials said.

Two minor girls died after a two-storey building in Dubli village collapsed due to heavy rain, police said.

"Eleven members of the family were trapped after the old house collapsed. Two girls, aged 4 and 7, died while nine others were rushed to a hospital where they are undergoing treatment," the official said. Those hospitalised were stated to be out of danger, he added.

Another incident was reported around 11 am on Tuesday from Sirsa village, when a child and a man died after a portion of a house collapsed on them.

"Vinod, 30, and Vishvakarma, 7, were standing under an extended ceiling of a house which collapsed. Another woman, Harwati, 50, stood there with fodder for her cattle and she got injured in the incident," a police official said.

All three had taken shelter there from rain, the official added.

A 28-year-old woman at a residential society in Bisrakh area fell from the balcony of her 15th-floor apartment and died on the spot, an official said.

"The married woman, who lives with her family in the apartment, had come to the balcony to cover the washing machine as it was raining heavily. Suddenly she slipped and fell off the balcony," a policeman said.

The official said no complaint was made to police and the woman's family insisted on not having a post mortem of the body also.

Rains have lashed Delhi-NCR over the last two days, with Noida and Greater Noida witnessing a good spell of showers leading to waterlogging and traffic snarls at various places.