The Met division mentioned the squall lasted for 3 minutes.
Kolkata/Howrah:
At least three folks had been killed, many timber had been uprooted and suburban prepare companies had been affected as nor’wester hit a number of southern districts of West Bengal on Monday night, officers mentioned.
A 12-year-old woman was killed after she got here involved with a dangling reside wire that bought torn throughout the squall in Botanical Garden space in Howrah metropolis, police mentioned.
A 65-year-old man was killed when his kutcha home collapsed throughout a thunderstorm in Amsha village in Uluberia police station space in Howrah district, a senior police officer mentioned.
Another 40-year-old girl was killed in Urfuli village in Bagnan police station space in the identical district when a tree fell on her throughout the storm, he mentioned.
The Met division mentioned the squall, recorded at its Alipore observatory in Kolkata, lasted for 3 minutes from 5.41 pm and had a most wind gust of 84 kmph.
Besides Kolkata, the nor’wester hit different south Bengal districts together with Purulia, Bankura, Birbhum, Purba and Paschim Medinipur, Purba and Paschim Bardhaman, Howrah, Nadia and South and North 24 Parganas, the weatherman mentioned.
Light to average rain accompanied the squall in numerous districts, together with in Kolkata, it mentioned. Hundreds of passengers bought stranded at numerous stations of the suburban prepare companies connecting Kolkata with neighbouring cities because the nor’wester hit throughout peak workplace hours.
Numerous folks had been seen ready for trains to their locations from Sealdah, one of many busiest stations within the state.
Train motion in several sections of Eastern Railway’s Sealdah division had been affected since 5.40 pm as damaged tree branches fell on overhead wires and railway tracks, an official mentioned.
Suburban prepare companies had been affected between Shyamnagar and Naihati in Sealdah primary part and between Baruipur and Lakshmikantapur in Sealdah south part, he mentioned.
In the Circular Railway of ER, a tree department fell on the railway line close to BBD Bag station, he mentioned.
Tower vans had been dispatched to revive companies as early as attainable, the official mentioned.
In the ER’s Howrah division, tree branches fell at Chandannagar and overseas our bodies bought entangled with overhead wires at Konnagar.
“Train motion in Howrah-Bandel part was, nonetheless, maintained through reversible line which was unaffected,” he mentioned.
In the Howrah-Kharagpur part of the South Eastern Railway, prepare companies had been kind of unaffected besides stoppages for about 5 to 10 minutes at one or two locations as a result of nor’wester, an SER official mentioned.
The squall introduced down a lot of timber in Maidan space close to Victoria Memorial and in Lake Gardens space in south Kolkata, damaging a couple of automobiles.
Disaster Management Group personnel had been deployed to take away the felled timber and clear the roads.
The nor’wester, which occurred throughout peak hours within the night, precipitated heavy visitors snarls within the metropolis, as felled timber blocked roads in some locations.
In Jhargram district, roofs of a number of kutcha homes had been blown away within the wind and plenty of timber had been uprooted, prompting minister Birbaha Hansda to go to the affected areas.
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