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Heavy rainfall hits normal life in Kolkata

| | Aug 09, 2016, at 01:40 am
Kolkata, Aug 8 (IBNS): Heavy rainfall hit normal life and disrupted Kolkata's traffic movement on Monday evening.

The rainfall began at around 5 pm. and continued till 6:15 pm.

Following the heavy rainfall, several parts in south and north Kolkata were waterlogged.

Till the latest update came in, huge traffic jam was reported from several busy parts of the city.

"Due to the heavy rainfall, traffic movement has been hit in the city. More traffic cops and senior officials have been deployed to the important points," one senior official of Kolkata Police told IBNS.

"We are doing our best to restore normal traffic movement and the situation will be brought under control very soon," he further said.

The IMD's Kolkata regional centre is forecasting more rainfall in the city and its outskirts in next 48 hours.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha, Images by IBNS)

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