Overnight rain brings Gurugram to its knees, beer-loaded truck falls into caved-in road

THOUSANDS of people working in Gurugram worked from home following a government advisory to corporate offices and private institutions on Thursday, a day after torrential rain saw led to massive waterlogging in the high-rise city that was brought to its knees.

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A truck loaded with beer bottles that fell into a road which had caved in was testimony to the rain havoc.

The incident occurred at the Southern Peripheral Road when the truck, filled with liquor bottles, overturned and fell into the crater. No one was hurt in the incident and a crane was used to pull the truck out, a senior traffic police official said.

Several private schools conducted online classes while some government schools cancelled classes for the day.