Kolkata: At least 11 people were killed in Bengal on Friday as heavy rain for 24 hours triggered by floods, landslides, and accidents in several parts of the country.
Two workers died and four were still lost after the rain caused landslides in Kalimpong early in the morning.
They are part of the eight team involved in the Sevoke-Rangpo train project in Mamkola and placed in the ITDC camp office when landslides occur.
The body of Dhan Singh Bhandari is 35 years old and other workers have been found.
A road chunks to Delo decided, preventing others in the Kalimpung Bongaon in North 24-parganas, a woman and son – identified as Mita (45) and Rishav Adhikari (22) – poked in the morning.
Mita Tapan’s husband Adhikari blamed the mistake on the power channel that was first claimed by Rishav.
He died trying to save his son.
One Hemanta Shil (36) was also electrocuted at the Howrah Dasnagar when trying to turn on the TV in his flooded house.
The afternoon victim in West Midnapore was three.
Pushpa Ruidas (55) was killed in the collapse of the garbeta wall; Purna Chandra Das is departed in the village of Singh in Ghatat; And snakebite claims patra madan (55), also in ghatal.
A motorized boat was upside down on the Silbati River in Daspur after a barrier in the afternoon.
However, all eight passengers managed to swim to a safe place.
The administration of the West Midnapore district has opened 212 aid camps, where 12,000 plus people have been sheltered.
The road between Keshpur and Midnapore is underwater.
A total of 172 grams of panchayats and seven cities were flooded and 20,000 houses were broken.
DM Rosmi Kamal made a record with ADM (G) Sarkar and ADR (LR) Sudip (LR) Tushar Singla.
In Simlapal Bankura, one Abdul Wahab Khan (52) was buried alive when the mud wall collapsed.
The road between Bankura and Jharram, and in Joypur, Kotulpur and the Indas are still flooded.
DM Radhika Apte said: “We have sent villagers who are saved to help camps.” The Waterlogged Toalpara Bridge in Santinikanheavy Rain also took victims in Burdwan.
The Ghagar Buri Temple along the NH-2 is underwater while 50 houses in asansol are badly damaged.
A woman and two small children were trapped under their house debris in Borpukuria.
They were saved and taken to the hospital, where the five-year-old Nikhil Buski was declared dead.
Meanwhile, the villagers blocked NH-2 for an hour near the Underpass Kurmunh flooded, demanding that the water run out.
Another death was reported in the Murshidabad district.
DVC Chief Engineer Satyabrata Banerjee said about 34,000 cusec water was released in the last two days.
“Pancel released 22,000 cusecs and Maithon 12,000 after heavy rain in a lower water catchment area,” he added.
(With the input from Nisha Chettri in Kalimpong, Sanjib Chakraborty in Kolkata, Mohammad Asif in Burdwan, happy Khanra in Midnapore & Falguni Banerjee in Bankura)
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