Lucknow, Aug 7:
Six members of a family, including two infants, were killed after a nearly century-old house collapsed during heavy rains in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district early Thursday, police said.
Three more people, including two children, died in separate wall and house collapse incidents in Barabanki and Saharanpur, taking the toll in rain-related incidents in the state to nine.
The incident in Pratapgarh occurred around 2 am in Mahuli Bazaar, about three km from the Pratapgarh district headquarters.
Circle Officer (City) Ashutosh Mishra said the incident took place when seven members of the family were sleeping in a single room of the old house.
Those killed were identified as Pramod Srivastava (60), his wife Rita (55), their son Nitin (25), daughter-in-law Madhuri (24), wife of their elder son Aman, and Aman’s two sons, Madhav (2) and 10-month-old Advik.
Aman (28) managed to crawl out of the rubble and raised an alarm following which local residents rushed to the spot and informed the police.
Police, assisted by the fire service personnel, launched a rescue operation and pulled out all those trapped under the debris. The injured were taken to the government medical college, where doctors declared six of them dead, Mishra said.
Police have sent the bodies for postmortem examination and further investigation is on.