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Eight dead as cloudburst-like rain hits Kolkata on Puja eve
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
|September 24, 2025
At least eight people were electrocuted as large parts of Kolkata were inundated after the heaviest rain, just two mm short of a cloud burst, in 37 years battered the city in the early hours of Tuesday ahead of the Durga Puja, West Bengal's biggest carnival, beginning over the weekend.
A man wades through a flooded Kolkata locality with his children on Tuesday.
(UTPAL SARKAR)
The torrential overnight rain left Kolkata paralysed as large swathes were submerged, transport services crippled, and traffic movement thrown out of gear.
This story is from the September 24, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Rajasthan.
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