Rainfall wreaks havoc in North India. Red alerts issued, schools closed. Top points

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National Highway. State Disaster Response Force and police officials said there were 11 people in the jeep. Five people have been rescued, while a search is on for three others, they said and added that three bodies have been recovered by rescue personnel.

Uttar Pradesh recorded widespread excess rainfall on Sunday, causing a rise in river water levels, hitting traffic movement in cities, and inundating farms in rural pockets. Of the 75 districts in the state, rainfall was witnessed in around 68 districts, according to IMD. During the past 24 hours till 12 pm, Uttar Pradesh recorded an average rainfall of 1.3 cm -- 56 per cent higher than normal and categorised as "excess" rainfall -- the weather data showed.  A 10-year-old girl died on Sunday when a tree branch fell on the tin shed of her house in Kaushambi following rains.

On Saturday, two people were killed and three injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Ballia. In Jammu and Kashmir after a landslide hit a passenger bus in Doda district. Bodies of two soldiers, who were swept away by flash floods while crossing the Dogra Nallah on Saturday, were recovered in Poonch district of the Union Territory.

However, there was some relief in Srinagar from heavy downpour and the yatra to the Himalayan cave shrine of Amranath resumed on Sunday from the Panjtarni and the Sheshnag base camps after remaining suspended for three days. Red alert has been issued for Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and Samba districts along with lower catchment areas with reports of water level in rivers and streams crossing the danger mark. Heavy monsoon rains in several parts of led to massive waterlogging and flooding in low-lying areas, prompting authorities to swing into action in the