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3 injured, flight, train services hit as rains lash Bengal
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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Aug, 2019
Three persons were injured,
flight and train services disrupted as large parts of Kolkata and other
south Bengal districts submerged in water on Saturday following heavy
monsoon rains.
Two persons were injured after a mini truck
collided with a container on a waterlogged road in Girish Park in North
Kolkata, while a security staff got wounded when the ceiling of a godown
gave way in East Kolkata's Tangra locality, police said.
According
to NSCBI Airport authorities, 24 outbound and 14 incoming flights were
delayed between 5 a.m. and 11.45 a.m. due to bad weather, while a flight
was cancelled.
Circular railway services were halted at 10.40 a.m. between Princep Ghat and Bagbazar stations as the track got inundated.
Six suburban trains were cancelled on the Howrah-Burdwan main line of the Eastern Railway with water entering the EMU carshed.
With
the leaden eyed skies opening up since Friday afternoon, vast areas of
the eastern metropolis from Ram Mandir and Thanthania in the north to
Alipore, Ekbalore, Khidirpur, Behala in the South saw waterlogging.
In
the state's showpiece IT hub of Saltlake sector 5, officegoers had a
trying time as most of the streets were under knee deep to ankle deep
water. Auto rickshaws and cycle rickshaws merrily fleeced passengers.
The
weatherman said the city received 186.1 mm of rains over the past 24
hours till 11.30 a.m. on Saturday and has predicted more rains over the
next few days following a cyclonic circulation formed on Friday over
South Bangladesh and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal.
The Regional
Meteorological Centre here has warned fishermen not to venture into the
sea during the next 24 hours as squally wind speed exceeding 45 kmph
and rough to very rough seas are likely over North West Bay of Bengal
under the influence of the cyclonic circulation.
In Kolkata's twin city Howrah, 20 of the municipal wards were submerged.
In
Howrah's Panchanantala, passengers of a mini bus on Dasnagar-Dharamtala
route had a narrow escape as one of the wheels of the vehicle got stuck
in an open manhole.
In Onda of Babkura district, water was
flowing over a a key bridge, while an underpass was submerged in Hooghly
district's Sreerampore.
A number of areas in neighbouring South
24 Parganas district were under water. There was waterlogging in many
localities of Rajpur-Sonarpur municipality, Mathurapur and Raidighi.
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