A deadly dust storm that claimed 15 lives and left nine persons injured last evening, in Uttar Pradesh.
The reason behind of most of the deaths was caused due to the falling of trees and incidents of house collapse, a UP government spokesperson on Saturday said.
Moradabad bore the brunt of the storm, with as many as seven deaths reported from the district, followed by three deaths from Sambhal, the spokesperson said.
Two deaths were reported each from Muzaffarnagar and Meerut, while one death was reported from Amroha.
Four persons were injured in Amroha, three in Moradabad and two in Muzaffarnagar, the spokesperson said.
The state government has ordered all district magistrates to distribute relief within 24 hours.
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The state was swept by three major dust storms last month that left over 130 people dead.
On May 13, 39 people died in various districts including Bareilly, Barabanki, Bulandshahr and Lakhimpur Khiri districts.
On May 9, a severe storm left 18 dead and 27 others injured. Five people died in Etawah district, three each in Mathura, Aligarh and Agra, two in Firozabad and one each in Hathras and Kanpur Dehat.
Thunderstorms and lightning on May 2-3 left 80 dead in the state, most of them in Agra district in the western part of the state.
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