<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, heavy rain and thunderstorm accompanied with lightning claimed 20 lives in the past 24 hours.<br />''<br />''<br />'' On second consecutive day heavy rains lashed many districts yesterday and thunderstorms along with lightning made the situation worse. Most deaths occurred due to lightning while 7 persons died because to snake bites and incidences of wall collapse. Cabinet Minister Dara Singh Chauhan visited families of victims and distributed cheques of ex gratia among them in Fatehpur district where lightning claimed 7 lives yesterday.</span><br />