Storm leaves 1,000 injured in Pabna
More than 1,000 people were injured when a severe storm swept through Pabna district at 5:00pm yesterday.
Padma and Jamuna char areas are the worst affected where kutcha houses were blown away or razed to the ground.
The victims including women and children were injured in house collapse and flying saucers. Hundreds of trees were uprooted, electric poles twisted, extensive damage caused to standing boro crop and litchis in Sadar, Iswardi, Sujangara, Bera, Chatmohar and Atowari upazilas.
As the electric supply disrupted with the beginning of the storm, the entire affected area remained in darkness till 8:30pm.
Details of damages from the affected upazilas are awaited.
Another report from Chapainawabganj said one Monimul Islam, 16, rice mill worker, died as a wall collapsed on him during the storm that swept through the district at 4:00pm.
The storm lasting about 10 minutes damaged kutcha houses and standing crops.
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