Biting cold, dense fog claim 12 lives in North India

December 25, 2014 21:02

Intense cold wave swept across North India on Thursday and, coupled with dense fog, affected normal life across the region and led to the death of 12 persons -- nine in Uttar Pradesh and three in Punjab.

Hilly regions of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh reeled under temperatures below the freezing point, while dense fog in the plains caused low visibility affecting flight operations and delaying around 100 trains.

In the national capital, people woke up to a chilly Christmas morning with dense fog continuing to disrupt road, rail and air traffic. The minimum temperature in Delhi settled two notches below the season's average at 6 degrees Celsius. The maximum was 15.9 degrees, according to the MeT office.

More than 90 trains including Rajdhani Expresses coming from Ranchi, Kolkata, Bubhaneshwar and Guwahati were running late, railway officials said.

Bitting cold wave, coupled with dense fog, severely affected normal life in Uttar Pradesh, where at least nine persons lost their lives due to cold weather conditions.

According to UP officials, three persons were killed in Mainpuri and one each in Barabanki and Badaun districts in separate road accidents due to low visibility caused by fog.

In Barabanki, two more persons -- a 55-year-old man and a two-year-old child -- died due to cold wave. According to a report from Muzaffarnagar in western UP, two persons have died due to cold since yesterday in the region.

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