NEW DELHI: Three people, including two children, died by drowning in two separate waterlogged areas as heavy rains in the national capital brought normal life to a standstill on Friday, police officials said.

In the first incident, two boys aged eight and 10 years drowned while they were playing in a rainwater-filled ditch in northeast Delhi on Friday evening.

According to police, the incident took place in a five-foot-deep ditch near Pusta No. 5 in the New Usmanpur area which got filled with water due the rains.