Part of the roof at a terminal at India’s busiest airport collapsed early Friday amid heavy thunderstorms and rains, killing at least one person and injuring eight others, according to a fire official.

       India’s minister of civil aviation said in a social media post that rescue operations were taking place Friday morning at Terminal 1 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. Airport officials said that the collapse happened around 5 a.m. local time in the departure area of the terminal and that all departures from the terminal had been suspended. Terminal 1 handles domestic flights.

       A cabdriver was killed when a pillar holding up part of the roof fell onto his car, according to Ravinder Singh, an official with Delhi’s fire department. Eight others were taken to the hospital with injuries, he said.

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