Lucknow, Aug. 4 -- At least 12 people died in incidents of flooding, lightning, drowning and snake bite in Uttar Pradesh over the last 24 hours even as incessant rainfall caused major rivers to swell and led to flooding in 17 districts.

The flood-hit districts include Kanpur Nagar, Lakhimpur Kheri, Agra, Auraiya, Chitrakoot, Ballia, Banda, Ghazipur, Mirzapur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Chandauli, Jalaun, Kanpur Dehat, Hamirpur, Etawah and Fatehpur.

Closely monitoring the situation in the flood-hit districts, chief minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officers to launch relief operations effectively. Ministers are monitoring the rescue operations in various districts on the CM's direction.

Floods have impacted 37 tehsils and 402 villages, af...