Altogether four people were killed, three of them electrocuted, in rain-related mishaps following cyclonic storm Dana in Bengal in the past 24 hours, official sources said on Saturday.Though the rains stopped last night, many residential areas and important avenues and streets, including VIP Road, were still under water impacting the movement of the people and traffic as well as supply of drinking water, sources added.
In south Kolkata a 22-year-old youth, identified as Sourav Gupta, a resident of Allahabad, was electrocuted on Friday evening after touching an iron railing of a multi-storied building at Elgin Road in Bhawanipur. The railing was holding a sign board of a dental clinic, which is in the same apartment. Police filed an FIR against the caretaker of the building. The youth, a graduate student, had come to the city to help his ailing father to run a bhujia shop.
A Civic Volunteer, identified as Chandan Das (31), was also electrocuted when he came in contact with a live wire at Bud Bud in Purba Bardhaman district on Friday.A part time worker of the Howrah Municipal Corporation was found dead in a waterlogged road in Tantipara in Howrah. He fell on the road and drowned accidentally.
Another person Subhojit Das (16) was killed due to electrocution at Patharpratima in South 24 Parganas district. All the deaths were reported during rains, which lashed the city and some south bengal districts yesterday.
Meanwhile, many streets and residential areas were under water,including that of VIP Road at Haldiram crossing, at the entry point of Dum Dum airport No 2 even as the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and Howrah municipality workers used pumps to dewater the marooned streets.(UNI)<>