New Delhi:

One person was reported dead as heavy rain flooded some of the key roads in Delhi and nearby areas this morning.

A person’s body was found floating in water near the road under the national capital’s iconic Minto bridge that was seen heavily flooded. The body of the pick-up truck driver was spotted by a trackman working at New Delhi yard.

“I spotted the body while I was on duty at the tracks. I came down, swam and retrieved it. The body was floating in front of a bus,” Ramniwas Meena was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

The rain and cloudy skies also led to a dip in the temperature.

Many people shared videos and images on Twitter and Facebook.

#WATCH Delhi: A bus got stuck in a waterlogged road under Minto Bridge following heavy rainfall in the national capital this morning. pic.twitter.com/OhwpyIU2Sz

— ANI (@ANI) July 19, 2020

#WATCH Delhi: Fire Department personnel rescue people on-board a bus that was stuck in a waterlogged road under Minto Bridge following heavy rainfall in the national capital this morning. pic.twitter.com/wBCjSRtvqw

— ANI (@ANI) July 19, 2020

Happy to inform you all that it rained in Delhi last night. Here’s the proof. The famous #MintoBridge. Yesterday once more ???? pic.twitter.com/6YGzwGBW9E

— Anuj Dhar (@anujdhar) July 19, 2020

Till 5:30 AM, the Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative figures for the city, recorded 4.9 mm rainfall. The Palam weather station gauged 3.8 mm precipitation.

Kuldeep Srivastava, head of the Met department’s regional forecasting centre, said, “Moderate to isolated heavy rains were witnessed in parts of Delhi-NCR.”

Earlier, the weather office had predicted isolated heavy to very heavy rain over parts of northwest India. It had said the “entire monsoon trough is most likely to shift northwards, closer to the foothills of the Himalayas during July 19-20”.