Storm lashes 3 Jamalpur villages

Three members of a family were injured, and over 50 houses, around 360 trees and several banana orchards were damaged by a storm at three villages in Melandah upazila of Jamalpur Thursday night.
The one-hour storm between 10:00pm and 11:00pm lashed Deflapara, Kangalkursha and Meghabari.
Farmer Majed Ali, 40, his wife and son Faruk, 15, of Meghabari, took treatment from the upazila health complex.
Locals said 18 houses and about 100 trees at Kangalkursha; 22 houses, 200 trees and several banana orchards at Deflapara; and 13 houses, about 60 trees at Meghabari were damaged.
He will have to live under the open sky as his lone house was vandalised, said Ataur Miah ofd.