At least three people were killed and several were injured in Assam’s Barpeta district as a storm lashed parts of the state on Thursday.
Fifteen villages of the district were hit by the storm and over 130 houses were damaged, the district officials said. The injured have been admitted to hospital for treatment.
Two of the three deceased have been identified as Fuljan Nessa and Samsun Nehar. Nessa, 45, died after a tree fell on her house.
The storm also caused damage to the makeshift huts built by families displaced in the state government’s eviction drive in the Dhalpur area of Darrang district.
In an advisory issued on April 14, the India Meteorological Department had warned about heavy to very heavy rainfall over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya in the next four days.
1,000 houses damaged in Meghalaya
Over 1,000 houses in Meghalaya’s Ri-Bhoi district were damaged due to the storm on Thursday, PTI reported. Authorities have not reported any casualties.
Visuals shared by social media users showed rooftops being blown away and uprooted trees. Most of the damage was reported from the towns of Lumnongrim Dewlieh, Umsning and parts of Umroi, East Mojo reported.
“Prima facie, 47 villages in the district were affected in the storm from where the damages to houses were reported,” an unidentified government official told PTI. The official said that disaster management teams have been deployed to assess the damage and carry out restoration work in the villages.
Raja Brahma, a block development officer in Umsning told The Shillong Times that government buildings such as the offices of the public works department and veterinary department were severely damaged.
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