8 Die as the season's heaviest rain pound Kolkata

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Kolkata, Jul 03 (UNI) Altogether eight people, including four children were killed as the season's heaviest rain pounded Kolkata and its adjoining districts this morning submerging many areas and disrupting life.

The overnight downpour that went through the whole day with an interval in afternoon, deluged most parts of Kolkata, flooding streets and entering many houses in the low-lying areas.

While long distance and suburban train services were disrupted, the rain delayed flights from NSCB International airport in the morning and almost crippled vehicular movement in the city.

Large areas of the city were submerged, the roads remaining under knee to waist deep water in many areas.

"It was the heaviest rain in this season. Over the past 24 hours we have recorded a total of 170 mm rainfall," a weather office spokesman said.

The rainfall in the morning was about 125 mm in just two hours, he added.

Inspector General of Police(Law and Order) Raj Kanojia said six people, including four children of a family, were killed when the wall of a house collapsed at Nahajani village under Vishnupur police station in South 24 Parganas district.

The victims were asleep as the wall crumbled after rain water seeped through the whole structure.

In a similar incident one person died and three were injured at Entally in Central Kolkata while one person was electrocuted by a live wire, snapped by the gusty wind at Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district.

While North and Central Kolkata were worst-hit by the rain, several localities in the South and also the IT hub at Salt Lake Sector-V experienced heavy waterlogging.

City Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharjee faced a demonstration by the opposition councillors who held the Left-run Kolkata Municipal Corporation for the plight of the people.

The opposition councillors alleged that the Corporation authorities had done nothing to improve the city's swerage system and pump out the accumulated water quickly.

UNI

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