May 27 2008
Unusual rain storms continues in North India, 22 died!
Very unusual and surprising raining and storm in the month of MAY in North India has made the weather experts to bite their nails. Every year, when the North Indians were used to face the scorching sun in the month of May, they are enjoying the sudden rain splashes this year. However, stormy rain and thunder is giving a jolt to smooth routine of the citizens damaging life and destroying crops.
Dust storms and heavy rains lashed huge swaths of Northern India, killing at least 22 overnight, an official said Tuesday. An additional 89 people died in non seasonal rain and dust storms in Uttar Pradesh state last week, police spokesman Surendra Srivastava said in Lucknow.
Srivastava said that strong winds of more than 70 miles per hour (113 kph) and heavy rains resulted in uprooting trees and electricity poles and destroying mud-brick houses.
“At least 22 people, five of them children, were killed in different incidents of house collapses and lightning strikes,” Srivastava said.
Another 23 people were injured and have been admitted to state-run hospitals, he added. According to government estimates the state has lost property and crops worth one billion rupees (USD 25 million; 16 million) because of two weeks of bad weather.
As reported the much-awaited South-West Monsoon on Tuesday further advanced into some more parts Bay of Bengal and is expected to set in over Kerala in the next three to four days.
