Heavy rains disrupt normal life in UP, 13 killed in last 24 hours

Heavy rains have disrupted normal life in Uttar Pradesh. In the last 24 hours, at least 13 people have been killed in rain-related incidents, according to media reports.

According to a Pradesh18 report, a state government official confirmed the death toll related to rain incidents. It's been raining heavily in various parts of the state, leading to caving in of houses, water logging and collapse of walls.

According to the report, six people were killed on the night of 16 August after a house collapsed due to heavy rains, two others were killed in Khurehati village here after being struck by lightening.

Another woman and her minor daughter were also killed due to lightening in Sitapur district.

Three persons died in Lucknow as a wall in their house collapsed.

More than two dozen villages have been inundated in Bahraich district as the Ghaghra river breached an embankment and flooded 28 villages.