At least three persons including a child have lost their lives in West Bengal due to rain related incidents today.<br />''Incessant heavy rain lashed Kolkata and other districts of South Bengal due to the well marked low pressure area lying over the central part of Gangetic West Bengal.<br />''<br />''In Kolkata, a two year old child and her grandmother died as an old two storied house collapsed at Ahiritola this morning. Another woman died at Chandrakona of Paschim Medinipur following a wall collapse due to overnight rain.<br />''<span style="color: #000000;">The MET department has issued a red alert for Purba and Paschim Medinipur while an orange alert has been sounded for Bankura, Purulia and Jhargram districts and yellow alert for 8 districts of South Bengal including Kolkata.</span><br />