Six drown in Uttar Pradesh flood

Lucknow : As the Army continued to evacuate the flood hit people in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district, swelling rain-fed rivers caused death of six more people raising the toll to 16, official sources said on Tuesday.

Six people, three of them children, died due to flooding and rain related accidents in different parts of Hardoi in past 24 hours, they said.

Army and local administration were carrying out rescue and relief operation as over 500 villages were affected by the floods in the district.

All majors rivers, including the Ganga, Ramganga and the Garra have been flowing above the danger mark.

Traffic between Hardoi-Kannauj and Hardoi-Farukkhabad routes have been suspended as precautionary measures as the roads were submerged in flood waters.

The situation has been bad in some western UP districts like Farukkhabad, Shahjahanpur, Agra and Badaun due to rain and flooding.