Heavy rains kill seven across north India; flights delayed

Torrential rain lashed north India, including the Delhi-NCR region, early Friday, killing at least seven people, uprooting over 100 trees, and delaying more than 200 flights.

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was blocked after the rain caused a landslide. A 28-year-old woman and her three children were killed when their house in southwest Delhi's Najafgarh area collapsed after a tree fell on it.

"Police and fire department officers pulled the family out of the rubble and rushed them to a nearby hospital in Jaffarpur Kalan, where four of them were declared dead," an officer said.

In Uttar Pradesh, three people were killed and several injured in lightning strikes.

Two of them were labourers working on a road project under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Firozabad. A family trying to cover a haystack with a tarpaulin sheet was also hit.

Diksha, 17, was struck dead by a lightning strike in Etah district's Bhagwantpur village. Her sister, Sapna, suffered burns, so did her father and brother.

In Firozabad again, a lightning strike killed Satyendra, 35, and Vishnu, 25 on the spot on the Shikohabad-Nanemau road. A third, Devendra, 30, was injured and rushed to a hospital, police said.