Lucknow, July 10 -- After delayed arrival, the monsoon is fully active in Uttar Pradesh for the past 3 days.
The monsoon fury has taken lives of 16 people during the past 48 hours in the state mostly due to electrocution.
Due to the rainfall, schools up to Class 12 have been closed on Friday in Meerut, Ghaziabad, Kasganj,Etah,Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor and Saharanpur.
Eight people from the Gorakhpur-Basti division died due to lightning strikes. In Bulandshahr, two people died after a wall collapsed. One each died in Aligarh, Saharanpur, Bulandshahr, Meerut , Ghaziabad and Shamli.
Heavy rains also disrupted connectivity in several districts and IMD has warned of heavy rain for 29 other districts in Purvanchal and Western UP for Friday.
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