3 injured flight train services hit as rains lash Bengal

Kolkata | Saturday | 17th August, 2019

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Kolkata: Three persons were injured, flight and train services disrupted as large parts of Kolkata and other south Bengal districts submerged in water on Saturday following heavy monsoon rains. Two persons were injured after a mini truck collided with a container on a waterlogged road in Girish Park in North Kolkata, while a security staff got wounded when the ceiling of a godown gave way in East Kolkata's Tangra locality, police said. Circular railway services were halted at 10.40 a.m.

between Princep Ghat and Bagbazar stations as the track got inundated. Six suburban trains were cancelled on the Howrah-Burdwan main line of the Eastern Railway with water entering the EMU carshed. A number of areas in neighbouring South 24 Parganas district were under water..