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Empresas y finanzas

Lizards and kites hold up flights in New Delhi


    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Around 100 flights were delayed in India's capital city after monitor lizards, jackals and birds strayed onto the runway, a day after the monsoon hit, The Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.

    A family of monitor lizards were first noticed by a piloton the secondary runway on Monday morning, forcing authoritiesto delay flight operations for about an hour.

    More delays were caused when jackals and kites were alsoseen ambling across the runway, the newspaper reported.

    Animal welfare groups later rescued the lizards and chasedaway the jackals, but the hold-up already had a knock-on effectand delayed evening flights as well, officials said.

    "There are not many remaining at the airport and we alsolay traps for them," a wildlife official was quoted on thepresence of lizards by the newspaper.

    In the past, monkeys, jackals and peacocks have disruptedflights in the capital, mostly during the monsoon season.

    (Reporting by Bappa Majumdar; Editing by Simon Denyer)