Malda: A hailstorm wreaked havoc in four blocks of Malda district last night, destroying ripening mangoes and damaging the boro crop.

The hailstorm left Sabera Bibi, 30, dead in a lightning strike at Mandi village near Vaisnabnagar. Her husband suffered severe burn injuries and was admitted to the Malda District Hospital.

Shoumojit Banerjee

PATNA: More than 80,000 homes were destroyed by the tropical storm that ripped through five districts of Bihar, and the death toll rose to 82.

According to the latest reports, five more bodies were recovered in the affected districts. A third of the victims were children, including 17 of the 39 victims in Purnia district and 11 of the 33 killed in Araria.

KOLKATA: The death toll in the tropical storm that ripped through North Dinajpur district of West Bengal on Tuesday night has risen to 42.

Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakrabarti told reporters here on Thursday that while 41 bodies were recovered from the debris, one person died of injuries at hospital.

The police barracks in Karnajora, Raiganj, whose roof was blown away and walls flattened by the storm. Picture by Nantu Dey

Raiganj, April 15: Inadequate relief in the storm-ravaged belt of north Bengal has forced desperate villagers to barge into a panchayat office and carry away tarpaulin sheets.

RAIGANJ, 15 APRIL: The death toll from Tuesday night

A day after a devastating thunderstorm killed four people and damaged up to 500 houses in Assam, the state government Thursday pledged all support to those affected.

Shoumojit Banerjee

A sudden, violent tropical storm mauled east Bihar late on Tuesday night, killing 77 people, besides rendering thousands homeless.

120 die as tornado hits Bihar, Bengal

Radar too far, response too slow

Bengal found itself handicapped when a thunderstorm

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