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Hailstones hit brew belt hard [1]

3000 houses roofless, 2 hurt, bushes bear brunt

Alipurduar, April 1: A hailstorm that lasted for 20 minutes last night wreaked havoc in the brew belt in Kalchini block, damaging at least 3,000 houses and rendering families homeless.

Two persons, one of them five-year-old Sanjeev Rai from Dalsinghpara, were hit by hailstones. Sanjeev got two stitches on the forehead.

Publication Date: 
02/04/2010
Telegraph (Kolkata) [2]
Tags:
Natural Disasters [3], Storms [4], West Bengal [5]

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/hailstones-hit-brew-belt-hard
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/telegraph-kolkata
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-disasters
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/storms
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal