Kolkata, Apr 30 (IBNS): At least 11 persons were killed and several others injured after several parts of West Bengal were struck by thunder storm on Monday morning, reports said.
A senior official from the state disaster management and emergency services department told IBNS that at least 11 deaths have been reported so far from five districts of West Bengal.
"Of the 11 casualties, one was killed in Hooghly district, two each in North 24 Parganas and West Medinipur districts, and three each in Nadia and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal," the official said.
"All these deaths were caused by heavy lightning during the thunderstorm and rainfall this morning," he added.
Meanwhile, in Kolkata, traffic and suburban train services were partly hit due to the thunderstorm while flights out of the city's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI-CCU) airport were delayed by nearly half an hour.
The storm with heavy rain dragged the mercury down instantly by a few degrees in Kolkata and other parts of Bengal.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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