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Toll touches at least 48 in flood-hit UP

by IBNS 18 Aug 2014, 10:07 pm

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IBNS): The death toll climbed to at least 48 so far with fresh reports of 20 people who died in different flood-related incidents on Monday in a large part of Uttar Pradesh owing to heavy monsoonal rain.

District like Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Gonda, Lakhimpur, Barabanki, Sitapur and Faizabad have been the worst-affected regions of the marooned northern state.

Sources said the situation in Balrampur and Barabanki districts is quite alarming as thousands of people have already left homes in the fear of rising water level in rivers.

In both the places (Balrampur and Barabanki), two people each drowned in separate incidents in swollen rivers. The dead body of a three-year-old girl was also recovered from a village in Lakhimpur district.

The Centre had earlier issued an “unprecedented flood situation” alert for the Rapti that is flowing above the danger level.

River Ghaghara has also swollen due to release of flood waters from the Chisapani barrage in Nepal and currently flowing above the red mark. Sources said that level of the Saryu River has receded below danger mark in Bahraich.

Heavy monsoonal rain triggered flood situation hitting a large part of four north Indian states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal amid MeT department forecasts that the rain fury will continue for another week.