At least one person died and six were injured this Friday when a part of the roof of Terminal 1 of the New Delhi airport collapsed, after a night of intense rainfall that has left parts of the city submerged under water and caused the cancellation of dozens of flights.

“Around 5:00 am (23:30 GMT Thursday), the canopy outside Terminal 1 of the airport collapsed,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of IGI airport Usha Rangnani told Indian news agency ANI. “One person was killed and around six people were injured,” the police officer added, adding that all the injured are stable and that several teams from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are on site.

All flight departures from Terminal 1 have been cancelled until 2:00 p.m. local time (8:30 a.m. GMT) and check-in counters have also been closed, New Delhi airport said in a statement. Although flights landing at the terminal were initially operational for the first few hours, They were later transferred to terminals 2 and 3, whose activity has not been affected, added the statement published in X.

Indian Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu told the media that they would start “a thorough investigation” to find the reasons for the collapse, claiming that it was due to a technical problem aggravated by the intense rains that New Delhi experienced.

Furthermore, he announced compensation of two million rupees (about $24,000) for the family of the deceased and 300,000 rupees (almost $3,600) for the injured. The Indian capital recorded heavy rains this Friday that caused flooding in several neighborhoods of this city of about 22 million inhabitants.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast that heavy rainfall will continue over the weekend in New Delhi. This rainfall comes just days after New Delhi recorded Maximum temperatures above 40 degreesin the last moments of a scorching summer that has caused dozens of deaths from heat stroke, especially in the north and east of India.