Bengal youth dies in flood-ravaged Kerala

Kolkata | Tuesday | 21st August, 2018

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Meanwhile, three residents of Natungram in East Burdwan, Afsar Sheikh, Nasir Sheikh and Habib Sheikh, who were also in Kerala, returned home Saturday. (Representational)A 19-year-old youth from Nakashipara in Nadia district who had gone to Kozhikode in Kerala to work as a construction labourer died Saturday. District officials, on condition of anonymity, said more than 150 people from various districts of Bengal, including Birbhum, Burdwan, Nadia and Midnapore, are feared trapped in various flood-ravaged areas of Kerala. Bengal government has extended all kind of help to the family,” Azehar Sheikh, a friend of Mullick said. The deceased, identified as Dilwar Hossain Mullick, is the first casualty from West Bengal in Kerala which is battling its worst floods in a century..