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Several parts of India are reeling under flood due to heavy rain including north India. The rain has caused flooding in many parts of Uttar Pradesh too. A viral video of Lucknow shows a group of men harassing a woman riding pillion on a bike on a flooded road.

The clip shared by news agency IANS shows a group of men creating a ruckus under Taj Hotel bridge. The men can be seen splashing water on the woman riding the bike. She was crossing the road when they surrounded and harassed her.

A few men attempted to pull the bike back when it crossed the group, which caused the two of them to fall onto the flooded road in the heavy rain.

Before pulling the bike, a man can be seen in the footage purportedly groping the woman. The woman fell off the bike and needed assistance to get up.

The police later intervened to disperse the crowd under the bridge and are in the process of identifying those who were involved in harassing the man and the woman.

Meanwhile, at least 12 people were killed in rain-related incidents and three died in fires in the last 24 hours, the state relief commissioner's office said here on Wednesday.

Four deaths were reported in Chandauli, three each in Banda and Gautam Buddha Nagar, two in Prayagraj, one each in Pratapgarh, Gonda and Etawah, it said.

Twelve of these deaths are related to lightning, drowning and snake bites.

The deaths were reported in the 24-hour period between 6 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday.

As per a report of the irrigation department, Ganga is flowing above danger mark in Kachla bridge in Budaun, the relief commissioner's office said.

Currently, seven districts (out of 75) -- Ayodhya, Ballia, Lakhimpur Kheri, Farrukhabad, Sitapur, Bahraich and Hardoi are affected by floods in the state. Relief and rescue operations are underway, it said.

(With inputs from IANS and PTI)