An eight-year-old girl drowned and a 36-year-old man was electrocuted when rains lashed the city Monday, officials said Tuesday.

The body of the girl, Sapna, was found Tuesday when waters receded from her house in Devli in south Delhi. The man, Nadeem, died in Mori Gate area of north Delhi when he touched an electric pole.

Three people were injured when a wall collapsed in the low income locality of Sangam Vihar in south Delhi.

On Tuesday morning, thousands struggled to reach workplaces because of massive traffic jams. Several underpasses remained submerged due to faulty construction of drains. Traffic lights did not work in several areas.

In many areas, portions of the roads simply caved in.

A total of 126 mm of rainfall lashed Delhi Monday. The worst traffic bottlenecks were reported from Minto Road, Dhaula Kuan, Palam, Dwarka, Badarpur, Moolchand, Nehru Place and Patel Nagar as well as Ring Road.

Delhiites were clearly frustrated and furious.

'If one downpour showed up the authorities' unpreparedness, what would happen if we had a regular monsoon?' asked scientist Anuj Singh, echoing a popular sentiment. Singh was stuck for five hours on the road linking Delhi to neighbouring Noida.

The Delhi Police refused to accept responsibility for the faulty traffic signals, which caused chaos.

Joint Commissioner (Traffic) S.N. Srivastava told IANS: 'Why are people blaming the traffic police? What can we do when the entire road is submerged? I and my men were manning the traffic till 2 a.m., completely drenched.'