Incessant rains lashed Kolkata for the second consecutive day on Sunday. According to the district administration of the North 24 Parganas, two persons died due to this heavy shower. However, the Regional Meteorological Centre, Alipore, did not give any signs of respite from the incessant rainfall in the next 24 hours.
According to Met officials, isolated heavy rainfall would occur over West Bengal and its neighbouring states of Jharkhand and Sikkim in the next 48 hours. “Monsoon is active and rain is expected in Kolkata and in adjacent districts of Malda, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur and Darjeeling district of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal during the next 48 hours,” Met director G.C. Debnath said. The city and its adjoining areas received 87.3 mm rainfall on Sunday.
Meanwhile, seven persons were trapped and injured in a building after a portion of it caved in at Phears Lane in Bowbazar on Sunday morning. Continuous shower is suspected to have weakened the construction of the old three-storeyed-building. At around 6.30 am, the third-floor corridor caved in. A store room besides it also collapsed entrapping seven persons.