At least three people were killed in the Indian capital after a newly constructed building collapsed following heavy rain that also triggered landslides and disrupted travel across parts of the country.Three men, aged between 24 and 62, died on Wednesday after the four-storey building in northwest Delhi’s Rohini area collapsed on them. A fourth person was pulled out alive from the rubble and taken to a local hospital for treatment.Police said they received a call at around 4.28pm local time about the incident and, upon arriving at the scene, saw the building reduced to rubble, with debris strewn across the street. Locals said labourers were trapped inside, prompting officials to launch a rescue operation, which went well into the night.The National Disaster Response Force, Delhi Fire Service, and other agencies were pressed into the rescue operation.Police said they had registered a complaint and launched an investigation to determine the cause of the collapse.The Delhi municipal corporation, in a preliminary assessment, found that plumbing work was underway inside the building when it collapsed. Drilling or cutting into structural members, including beams and columns, could have contributed to the incident, it said.A vehicle is stuck under a fallen tree during heavy rain in Delhi, India, on 9 July 2026 (Reuters)India’s weather agency issued a red alert for Delhi on Thursday, warning of heavy rainfall after intense showers left roads waterlogged and trees uprooted across parts of the city.Safdarjung, the city’s base weather station, saw 72.6mm of rainfall in the 24 hours ending Thursday morning while Lodhi Road received 80.2mm, Ridge wit 77.8mm and Palam 63mm.The agency forecast fairly widespread to widespread rainfall over northern India, especially around Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and West Uttar Pradesh, until 10 July.Authorities at the Delhi international airport ‌advised passengers to allow extra travel time because of waterlogging on some roads leading ‌to it.In the coastal state of Goa, three fishermen were rescued after their canoe capsized in a river near Morjim beach, officials said.People wade through a flooded street in Vasai on 8 July 2026 (AFP/Getty)In the neighbouring state of Maharashtra, at least 13 people died in four days as heavy rainfall collapsed buildings in Mumbai’s eastern suburbs. Five children and a woman were killed when a three-storey chawl, a row tenement common in the city older neighbourhoods, collapsed in the Mankhurd area.In the Pune city, a large mound of garbage collapsed ‌at a waste treatment facility, trapping nine people. The climate crisis is intensifying the monsoon, with research showing that extreme rainfall events are becoming more frequent and more intense across the subcontinent.India relies on the monsoon for about 70 per cent of its annual rainfall, which sustains agriculture for hundreds of millions, but the rains increasingly arrive in concentrated, destructive bursts rather than steady seasonal showers.