Lucknow: At least nine people were dead and 10 others seriously injured after a wall came crashing down due to heavy rain in Lucknow’s Dilkusha area.
The injured have been admitted to the Civil Hospital where doctors said that they are out of danger. An order calling for schools to be shut was issued at 4 am this morning after a night of incessant rainfall. An orange category heavy rainfall alert has also been issued for several areas.
Lucknow received almost as much rain in one day that it sees in a whole month. The city has recorded 155.2 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours. The average that Lucknow usually receives for the whole month of September is 197 mm. The unusually high rainfall has also caused waterlogging in some areas.
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