Pratapgarh: Seven more people, including a child, died in the incident of a house and a separate wall collapsing in Pratapgarh due to heavy rains, taking the death toll because the rain fell to nine in the district, the police said on Friday.
Overall, at least 19 people have died of heavy rains in Uttar Pradesh since Wednesday.
In the middle of the rain unrelenting on Thursday, Amit (4) and Om Prakash (50) died in separate villages under the area of the Antu Police Station in the Regency because the wall collapsed, police said.
Kalika (80) in a village under the Sagipur Police Station, Kalawati (65) in the Kohdaur Police Station Area, Chamela Devi (54) and Kusum Maurya (25) in different villages under the police station policy, and Amarjit Singh (65) In a village under the area of Udaypur was killed in a wall incident and a similar house collapsed, police said.
The body of all the deceased has been sent for post-mortem, he said.
Previously, officials had reported on Thursday that two people had died of the incident related to rain in this district.
At Gode Village under the area of the Kotwali police station, one person was killed and three others were injured when the wall of a house collapsed when they were sleeping.
Ramzan (18) died in the incident, while his sister and her two children were injured and claimed to go to the hospital.
In another incident in Gahrichak Village under the Kandhai police station area, Urmila Misra (55) died when the ‘Kutcha’ house collapsed due to rain.
Heavy rain since Wednesday has seen a round in several places and causes discomfort for people in this district.
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7 more people died at home, the wall collapsed above Pratapgarh
