Rain claims ten lives in West Bengal

Tuesday, 25 September , 2007, 22:49

Kolkata: The death toll from three days of incessant rainfall in southern West Bengal touched 10 with a youth dying of electrocution in Kolkata Tuesday afternoon, even as the districts reeled under a flood-like situation despite a let-up in the downpour. The police said a youth died at Ultadanga in north Kolkata after he came in contact with a live electric wire, which had got detached from its post and fell into a waterlogged area. Full Story