Lagatar24 Desk
Lucknow, Sept 16: A wall collapsed in Lucknow, killing nine people and injuring two after heavy rainfall. Numerous areas of the city have experienced waterlogging as a result of the exceptionally heavy rain.
The Civil Hospital has admitted the victims of the wall collapse, and the hospital’s medical staff has declared them to be safe.
UP | Nine people dead and 2 injured after a wall collapsed due to heavy rain in Lucknow. The incident took place in Dilkusha under Cantt: Home Department pic.twitter.com/Kxmml42KBe
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Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, announced a 4 lakh rupee for people who died and 2 lakh rupee for those injured.
“Some labourers were living in huts outside an Army enclave in the Dilkusha area. Owing to heavy overnight rains, the boundary wall of the Army enclave collapsed,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Piyush Mordia told news agency PTI.
“We reached the spot around 3 am. Nine bodies were pulled out from the debris and one person was rescued alive,” he said.
After a night of nonstop rain, an order was issued at 4 am this morning ordering all schools closed. Additionally, a number of locations have received an orange category heavy rainfall alert.
Almost as much rain fell on Lucknow in one day as it does in a whole month. The city received 155.2 millimetres of rain in the previous 24 hours, according to the Indian Meteorological Department. For the entire month of September, Lucknow typically receives an average of more than 190 mm.
