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Heavy rain brings life to stop in Bengal

Kolkata: Heavy rain for the past two days because the formation of a low-pressure area on Gangetic West Bengal has thrown life outside the equipment in several districts in the southern part of the country, where redundant roads and excessive rivers, sank the lowland area.
Many train railway (ER) and South Eastern Railway (SER) must be canceled or rescheduled as trects remain flooded near the HOWRA and Kolkata terminal station, officials said.
Among those canceled including Moornva Express, Lal Kuan Express, Hool Express, while Howrah-New Delhi Express, Himgiri Express and Doon Express was rescheduled, an ER official said.
The circular train service in and around Kolkata was completely suspended because the rainfall was unrelenting since Wednesday night, the official said.
In the Seacdah Division, the Kolkata-Lalgola Express service and Kolkata-Hazarduary Express was canceled for that day, while Poorvanchal Express and Radhikapur-Kolkata were specifically stopped short.
The South East train canceled the special express train from Howrah to CSTM (Mumbai), Titlagarh, Secunderabad and Puri, and rescheduled several other trains.
Some places in Kolkata, new cities and the city of Howrah are very flooded throughout the day with rainy water flowing in several regions in several regions, causing great difficulties for residents.
At the Panihati State General Hospital, the Covid-19 facility designated in the 24 North Parginas district, patients and medical staff must navigate knee water during the day.
With the rivers of para and silbati overflowing, the parts of the Keshpur and Chandrakona in Medinipur Paschim were flooded, cutting remote areas of all districts.
Similarly, the large tract in the jharram was submerged because it overflowed from the Dulung River.
The heavy waterlogging also inhibits everyday life in Haldia in Purba Medinipur, Ghatal in Paschim Medinipur, Bolpur in Birbhum and Indus in Bankura.
Traffic stops at many flood highways in Bankura, Jhargram and Paschim Medinipur as water takes time to recede after heavy rain.
Two lawyers in the Alipore Police Court here have fate from electrocution on Thursday when a judge and lawyers come to save them and release them from the electricity pole, which they have touched when they headed for their flooding roads.
Hearing them screamed, the Chief Justice Judge Subrata Mukherjee and other lawyers came out and used wooden chairs and other ingredients to free them.
They were taken to a private hospital, where doctors released them after the clinical test and initial maintenance, the source at the Alipore court said.
The meeting department said on Friday that a well-marked low pressure area, located in the interior of West Bengal Gangetic, is likely to move to Jharkhand, South Bihar and the southern part of Uttar Pradesh in the next two days.
Weatherman has predicted heavy rain until Saturday morning in Purulia, Jhargram, Paschim Medinipur, Bankura, Paschim Bardhaman, Purba Bardhaman and Birbhum District.
It has also predicted a very heavy rain in Darjeeling and Kalimpong, and heavy rains in Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar District in West Bengal Sub-Himalaya until Sunday.
Panskura in the Purba District of Medinipur recorded the highest rainfall in the state in 24 hours, until 8:30 a.m.
on Friday, at 250 mm, he said.
Another place that records thick rainfall is Uluberia (220 mm), diamond harbor (220 mm), ghatal (210 mm), debogram (200 mm), indus (190 mm) and kalimpong (180 mm).
Kolkata recorded 150 mm rainfall during this period, the department said.

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