In Uttar Pradesh River Ganga, Sharda, Ghaghara, Kosi, Rapti and Melon are flowing above danger mark at several places in Western, Terai and Eastern regions of the state. The state government has claimed no flood like situation in any district of the state. AIR Lucknow correspondent reports that in Ghaziabad district local administration has issued alert to residents of low-lying areas in the particularly Loni and Garhmukteshwar, areas of the district as water levels rose in Ganga and Yamuna due to rains and extra water discharge into the rivers by Haryana and Uttarakhand. River Yamuna flooded low-level areas when over 71 thousand cusecs of water was discharged from Tajewala barrage in Haryana, affecting over a dozen villages in loni block. Water level in river Ganga at Garhmukteshwar is very close to the danger mark. As per central water commission reports River Ganga is raising at Kannauj, Kanpur and Allahabad while rive Yamuna is also swelling at Mathura and Etawah districts. Several villages under Paliankala and Nighasan tehsils in Lakhimpur Kheri district are surrounded with flood water of river Sharda. In Deoria and Shrawasti districts Ghaghara and Rapti rivers are flowing above danger mark. In Sitapur district water level of river Ghaghara is rising and land erosion has taken place due to flood. In Rampur district Kosi river has affected several villages and standing crops in the district. In Meerut district hundreds of people have been shifted at relief centers from the villages marooned with flood water of river Ganga which has inundated thousand acres of land damaging standing crops. Lakhs of cusecs of water from Tajewala, Banbasa, Narora, Nanak Sagar and Dunee barrages have been released in Ganga and Sharda rivers and it has affected water level of these rivers. Meanwhile five persons were killed in the state during last 24 hours in rain related incidents in Azamgarh and Fatehpur districts.