Kolkata: According to coastal government officials, Cyclone Remal has left at least 10 dead and several others injured.
Besides more than 30,000 houses have been destroyed.
The Cyclone triggered heavy overnight rains and winds gusting up to 135 kmph disrupting normal life, inundating parts of the city besides uprooting hundreds of trees and knocking down electric poles in West Bengal on Monday.
Initial reports said several persons were injured due to house collapse or when hit by flying debris as Remal made its landfall between the coasts of West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh. The state government has already shifted to safer places around 1.10 lakh people living in low-lying areas.
It brought in its wake heavy rains, with Kolkata experiencing 146 mm of showers, and 100-110 km winds that gusted up to 135 km per hour, which uprooted trees and snapped overhead power cables, besides twisting signal posts.
Trees felled by the cyclone blocked vital roads in the posh Salt Lake area, stalling vehicular traffic movement.
Areas in South Kolkata like Dhakuria, Park Circus and Ballygunge were under knee-deep water while Metro railway shades were blown away in Tollygunge and Kavi Nazrul stations.
Services of the North-South Metro railway line in Kolkata was affected as the tracks between Park Street and Esplanade stations were waterlogged. (with Agency inputs)
