The canopy roof and massive metallic support beams that held it up crumpled onto the Terminal 1 departure forecourt at Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 5:00 a.m. local time, landing on at least four parked cars and killing a taxi driver in one of them.
The collapse joins a growing list of incidents involving infrastructure over the past year that has prompted questions from opposition party politicians and experts about the risks of lax regulation and the fast pace at which projects are completed.
On Friday, in a tragic incident at the Delhi airport, one person was killed and eight were injured after a portion of the roof of the Terminal-1 collapsed on cars, including taxis, amid heavy downpour that threw traffic on roads and air into chaos.
The collapse occurred in the domestic departure area of Terminal 1, the main terminal of New Delhi’s main airport.
