The Hindu : Flood and fun

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Sunday, Jun 22, 2003

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Flood and fun

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A girl crossing a street flooded due to heavy monsoon rain in Kolkata on Saturday.

Kolkata June 21.

Heavy monsoon showers lashed the metropolis and its suburbs throughout the day waterlogging many areas and hampering normal life even as weathermen forecast more rains in West Bengal.

Knee-deep water accumulated in the Kolutola, Thanthania, Southern Avenue and Amherst Street areas of the city bringing traffic to a crawl.

A portion of a two-storey building in the east Kolkata area of Narkeldanga collapsed trapping a 67-year-old old woman, who was later rescued, fire brigade sources said.

Distress calls of electric short circuit and uprooted trees kept pouring in from many areas throughout the day, the sources said.

Train services in some sections of the Howrah division of Eastern Railway were disrupted due to flooding of the tracks.

Incessant rains caused track circuit failure leading to non-functioning of signals in Howrah area controlled by the route relay interlocking system. The ER engineering and signalling departments were working to solve the problem. As a result, 10 EMU locals were cancelled, ER sources said. Trams were also pulled off the roads in many routes.

The regional Met Department recorded 116.8 mm of rain in the last 24 hours as the mercury slid to a pleasant 30.8 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal. -- PTI

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