The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday issued a red alert and predicted heavy rainfall with lightning in six districts of the state for the next twenty-four hours.
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Two labourers died while four were severely injured due to lightning strike in the Kachhar village under the Bakswaha police station area in the Chhatarpur district, according to the police on Saturday.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy to very heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning at isolated places over Dehradun, Uttarkashi, Tehri, Pauri and Nainital in the next 24 hours.
"Three persons including a woman were killed, and three others were injured in the incidents. The injured are undergoing treatment," Ramji Mishra, Additional District Magistrate, Mainpuri told ANI.
Lightning has killed at least three people and injured two others in three different incidents in Jamshoro and Badin districts of Sindh, Dawn reported.
Three persons were killed and one was injured near Durgapur village in Panna district, while two persons died in Ramnagar village in Tikamgarh district.
According to the official statement from the chief minister's office, with this, the total number of lightning-related deaths in the state rose to 24 in the last 36 hours.
District Administration said that five people died in Barwa Sagar which comes under Mehnagar police station and in another similar incident one person died in the Maharajganj area of the district.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, on Tuesday, expressed grief over the deaths that occurred in the Azamgarh and Ghazipur districts, due to lightning.