NEW DELHI — The roof of a terminal building at New Delhi's international airport partially collapsed during heavy rains early Friday, killing one person, rescuers said.
NEW DELHI — The roof of a terminal building at New Delhi 's international airport partially collapsed during heavy rains early Friday, killing one person, rescuers said.Images posted online showed vehicles crushed under giant steel girders at the departure forecourt of the airport's Terminal 1, one of several projects formally launched by Modi in March ahead of the country's general election.
At the scene, civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu told reporters: 'We are taking this incident seriously... I want to clarify that the building inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi is on the other side, and the building that collapsed here is an old building and was opened in 2009.'Modi only took power several years later, but opposition politicians slammed the prime minister after the Friday incident.
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