UP floods: Two more die, toll rises to 102

Lucknow: Fresh two deaths were reported on Monday from Gorakhpur, taking the toll to 102 in flood-hit districts of Uttar Pradesh, the flood control room told PTI.

Three persons received injuries in the floods, while two are said to be missing, the control room, located in the office of the relief commissioner, said.

The number of flood-hit districts is 24, officials said, adding that at present as many as 3,128 villages are in the flood-affected category.

A number of people have been accommodated in the relief camps, they said.

Rapti, Ghaghara, Burhi Rapti, Rohini and Quano rivers are in spate and have inundated vast areas in Lakhimpur Khiri, Barabanki, Faizabad and Ballia, Gorakhpur and Siddharthnagar, the officials said.