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The canopy collapse at the Rajkot airport terminal comes a day after the incident at the Delhi airport.
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This incident comes just a day after a large section of the roof at the Terminal 1 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport collapsed after heavy rainfall killing one and injuring six people
A canopy at the passenger pickup and drop area outside the terminal of Rajkot’s Hirasar airport collapsed on Saturday amid heavy rains and strong winds. No injuries have been reported due to the incident as of now.
Repair work is currently underway at the area where the canopy collapsed. Further details of the incident are awaited.
BJP’s Amit Malviya Reacts
BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya took to his official X account and reacted to the canopy collapse incident at the Rajkot airport.
Rajkot airport’s canopy cloth tearing away because of heavy wind and rain is not the same as infrastructure collapsing. And no, we shouldn’t blame Nehru for it, because he didn’t build airports on the scale that were required. Left to him, we would all be traveling in bullock…— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) June 29, 2024
Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a ‘yellow alert’ for south Gujarat, predicting the possibility of heavy showers on Saturday.
Heavy showers are also predicted at isolated places in Gandhinagar, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Anand, Navsari and Valsad districts, and in Daman and Dadra Nagar Haveli on Sunday and the wet spell would continue till July 3, said the release.
With the southwest monsoon advancing further into the state, several parts of Gujarat received light to moderate rainfall between 6 am and 6 pm on Friday.
This incident comes just a day after a large section of the roof at the Terminal 1 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport collapsed after heavy rainfall killing one and injuring six people.
The Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) on Saturday announced that operations at the Airport’s Terminal 1 will remain suspended till further notice following a roof collapse that has left one dead and six people injured.
(with PTI inputs)
