India, July 11 -- NEW DELHI/GHAZIABAD/NOIDA

Four more rain-related deaths were recorded across Delhi-NCR on Friday, even as there was an intermittent pause in rainfall, taking the monsoon death toll to eight over the past two days. A 45-year-old man drowned in his flooded ground-floor residence in Delhi's Sundar Nagri, while two children drowned in open plots and pits in separate incidents in Ghaziabad, and a 27-year-old man fell into a three-to-four-foot pit in Noida's Sector 58.

According to details shared by the police, the incident in Delhi took place on Thursday evening, when the man was reportedly sleeping. They identified the deceased as Dheeraj Rao, of Nagpur in Maharashtra, who worked at a wedding card printing factory in Shahd...