Siliguri / Kalimplong / Jalpaiguri: heavy rain pounding North Bengal on Wednesday after low pressure on Bihar increased into the circulation of cyclones, triggering several landslides and suddenly rose on the surface of the river.
At least some bridges are broken and some roads surrender in North Bengal.
Two children were swept away by Torsha’s water and hundreds of tourists left stranded.
The Met Office has issued a red warning, a warning that very heavy rainfall will continue in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Alipurduar even on Thursday.
In Jaigon in Alipurduar, two girls – aged 10 and eight – from the same family were swept on Wednesday.
The police cannot trace their bodies until the end of Wednesday.
According to Nabanna’s source, five deaths have been reported since Monday.
Heavy rain has caused damage from several bridges.
The booster pillar from the Rangpo Bridge which connects Bengal with Sikkim was washed earlier on Wednesday.
The authorities limit the movement of heavy vehicles but lighter vehicles are allowed to take bridges.
The Balalas Bridge along the National Highway 31 in Matigara on the outskirts of Siliguri was also damaged, which led to the police suspended the movement of cars and more heavy vehicles on the bridge.
Some parts of Kalimpong remain disconnected for the main part of the day because of several landslides along the national highway-10 between Teesta and Setija.
Kalimpong DM R Vimala said about 46 landslides occurred between Monday and Wednesday because Kalimpong received 335mm rainfall during this period.
The NH-10 stretch between Algara and Lava is the most affected.
Small vehicles were diverted through the Darjeeling District and vehicles of goods remained stranded on national highways since Tuesday night.
The police reached around 100 strange vehicles carrying tourists from Kolkata and elsewhere were trapped on Jalan Algisah-lava and providing tea, snacks, and water for them while mobilizing a broken road.
The streets of Chitrey to Gelchola were partly cleaned at 2:00 p.m.
on Wednesday.
Take a walk from Gelchola to Setijhora along the NH-10 cleaned at night.
Bikash Das, a tourist from Kolkata who was trapped because landslides, said: “We are stuck at 9 miles for 18 hours.
We cannot communicate because there is no cellular network.
Apart from us, we can see around 25 vehicles.
Trapped there.
“Payal Mukherjee, another tourist from Kolkata, added that the locals helped them with tea, biscuits, and water while they were stranded in the middle of the forest all night.
Between Tuesday and Wednesday, North Sikkim received 84.8mm rainfall, the Eastern District.
Receive 141.2mm rain, 97.1mm west and the southern district receives a 91.5mm rain average.
“Rongli in the Eastern District has received 158.4mm rain while Magitar in East Sikkim has received 308mm rain in the last 48 hours”, said Imd Director (Gangtok) Gn Raha.
He added that there was no warning for rainfall for the next five days in the state.
However, the same thing is unpredictable for North Bengal where the department meets warns of severe rainfall in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar, which can lead to more landslides.
Darjeeling Himalayan train (DHR) has suspended his full service from Jalpaiguri Baru to Darjeeling from Wednesday after a landslide.
Howeve R, Joy Rides and forest tea safari services are still operating.
(Compiled with input from Roshan Gupta, Nisha Chhetri & Pinak Priya Bhattacharya)