Three minors drowned while taking bath in floodwaters in northwest Delhi's Mukundpur area on Friday.
The boys, all residents of northeast Delhi's Jahangirpuri, were aged between 10 and 12, reports PTI.
According to NDTV, the boys dived into the floodwaters in the afternoon and were drowned. A police constable tried to rescue them, but they were unresponsive by the time the help came.
These are the first deaths to be reported in the Delhi floods.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that the Okhla water treatment plant restarted as the water levels in the Yamuna are receding.
The government had announced the closure of three water treatment plants—Wazirabad, Chandrawal and Okhla—due to the rising water levels in the Yamuna following days of heavy rains in Delhi and the upper catchment areas.
"Okhla water treatment plant started…," the CM tweeted, retweeting an earlier tweet that said, "With receding water levels, we are starting Okhla water treatment. Am reaching there to take stock."
After breaching a 45-year record three days ago, water levels in the Yamuna in Delhi came down to 208.25 metres at 3 pm on Friday even as several key areas in the city were inundated.
The water level in the Yamuna was 208.42 metres at 8 am, 208.38 metres at 10 am and 208.35 metres at 11 am. It went down further to 208.27 metres at 1 pm and 208.25 metres at 3 pm.