5-year-old killed, 6 harm in rain-hit Sambhal dist
A five-year-old boy was killed and 6 others of his household have been injured because the partitions of a thatched home collapsed on them, in western Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district, which witnessed hours of downpour on Sunday and within the wee hours of Monday. The boy and his household lived within the district’s Salarpur Kala village.
A waterlogged locality in Firozabad. (HT)
The incessant rains in elements of western U.P. resulted within the termination of eight trains on Moradabad-Shahjahanpur route and two extra between Rampur and Mudhapandey as tracks remained submerged in rainwater. The Railways cancelled trains between Kathgodam and Dehradun, Kathgodam and Jaisalmer, Ramnagar and Moradabad, Balmau and Shahjahanpur, Sitapur metropolis and Shahjahanpur, New Delhi and Kathgodam, Moradabad and Sambhal Hatim Sarai and Sambhal Hatim Sarai and Moradabad.
The Moradabad division of the Railways mentioned the Luknow-Meerut intercity was terminated until Bareilly and the Banras-Dehradun practice was terminated at Shahjahanpur as a result of waterlogging on tracks at totally different places. Whereas a number of trains have been diverted, the Jaisalmer-Kathgodam Specific was cancelled until Tuesday.
In the meantime, Bijnor district reported widespread waterlogging on roads and in low-lying areas after recording 276.6 mm rain on Sunday, in accordance with official information.
The climate was, nevertheless, higher in Meerut, Saharanpur and Moradabad because the area, which reported thunderstorm the day gone by, witnessed little rain on Monday.
