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Four of them were school children.In remote villages of Agra and Firozabad districts, lightning killed three, including two teenage siblings. Agra/Meerut/Bareilly: Lightning strikes killed at least 12 people, including four school children, on Thursday across Uttar Pradesh which saw another spell of freak weather. They were evacuated to safety, and later sent home.Western UP bore the maximum brunt as 10 persons were killed in lightning strikes in the area. In Bijnor, a 50-year-old farmer was killed after lightning struck him.While another four persons were killed in west UP’s Bareilly and Moradabad divisions.In Bareilly district’s Aonla area, two school-going cousins were killed in a lightning strike. Roshni (12) and her younger brother Suraj (6) died on the spot in Agra’s Vikrampur village..