Kolkata/Hyderabad, May 27 (Maxim News): At Least two persons died in West Bengal and its coastal areas suffered extensive damage to infrastructure and property, as Cyclone Remal tore through the State and neighbouring Bangladesh with winds speeds reaching 135 km per hour, officials said Monday.
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A man died of his injuries when a well collapsed due to the relentless downpour on Sunday evening at the Bibir Bagan area of Entally in Central Kolkata, a State disaster management official said. An elderly woman in the Mousuni Island near Namkhana adjacent to the sunderbans delta also succumbed to injuries on Monday morning, following a tree collapse on her hut that resulted in the roof caving in, the official said.
After tearing through the coasts of Bangladesh and West Bengal, Cyclone Remal left a trail of destruction with pictures of devastation becoming evident across the State’s coastal areas, with extensive damage to infrastructure and property, soon after daybreak on Monday.
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Roofs of thatched huts were blown away, uprooted trees blocked roads in Kolkata as well as in the coastal districts, and electricity poles were knocked down causing significant power disruption in various parts of the state, including in the city’s outskirts, the officials said.
While several pockets of Kolkata remained waterlogged on the morning of the first working day of the week, suburban train services from the Sealdah terminal station remained partially suspended for at least three hours, adding to commuters’ woes, before operation lumped back to normal.
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Flight services at the Kolkata airport resumed on Monday morning after remaining suspended for 21 hours in view of Cyclone Remal. Airport sources, however, said it will take some more time for the situation to become normal.
The cyclone ravaged adjacent coasts of the state and Bangladesh between Sagar Island and Khepupara, near the southwest of Mongla in the neighbouring country, after its landfall process began at 8.30 pm on sunday and lasted for a good four hours.
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In a later update the Met office said ‘Remal’ weakened into a cyclonic storm at 5.30 am on Monday, about 70 km northeast of Canning and 30 km west-southwest of Mongla. the system is likely to gradually weaken further. Efforts to restore normalcy are underway, with emergency services working to clear debris and restore power in the affected areas.
However, the relentless heavy rain is hampering these operations in most of the affected areas, the officials said. the state government has initiated relief operations, providing food, drinking water and medical assistance to the people affected. (Maxim News)
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