Lucknow: Intense cold prevailing in Uttar Pradesh claimed 10 more lives in the past 24 hours, officials said on Thursday.
Five people fell prey to the extreme weather in Jaunpur, four in Maharajganj and one in Lalitpur, they said. The weather office said night temperatures fell in Gorakhpur and was appreciably below normal in Agra, Jhansi and Gorakhpur divisions. The lowest temperature in the state of 3.2 deg C was recorded at Najibabad and Banda, it said, adding cold wave conditions would prevail at isolated pockets during next 24 hours.
Ground frost was also likely at some places in west UP during the next two days, it added. PTI