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Online Report<\/p>\n
A sudden tornado struck Garagram Union of Kishoreganj Upazila in Nilphamari on Sunday morning, injuring at least 30 people and damaging over 500 houses.<\/p>\n
Most injuries were caused by falling tree branches and collapsing homes. Among the injured, Taiful, 30, Tasin, 25, Royal, 30, Gulchan, 40, and Atiq, 22, from Disirmor Munshipara were admitted to Kishoreganj Upazila Health Complex.<\/p>\n
The tornado, which lasted just minutes, devastated several villages including Majhapara, Baniapara, Hajipara, Uttarpara, Poddarpara, Zikarul Memberer Para, Babupara, Chairmaner Para, Bairagipara, Munshipara and Kalirthan.<\/p>\n
Thousands of trees were uprooted along the Kishoreganj road, bringing traffic to a standstill. Fire service personnel, along with locals, worked for nearly four hours to clear the roads and restore normal traffic flow.<\/p>\n
Besides, four cows died after house walls collapsed. UP Member of Ward No 8, Mojahid, confirmed that one of Abdul Baki\u2019s cows in Munshipara and three of Farhad\u2019s in Chairman Para were killed in the incident.<\/p>\n
Jonab Ali, chairman of Garagram Union Parishad, said 11 villages in the union were affected.<\/p>\n
\u201cNumerous trees were destroyed, Aman paddy fields were damaged, and power lines were snapped, cutting electricity to all 11 villages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Kishoreganj Fire Service acting station leader Mostafizur Rahman said that fire service teams are continuing efforts to clear debris and fallen trees.<\/p>\n
Pritam Saha, upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Kishoreganj, said the administration, agriculture department and fire service are working together in the affected areas. \u201cDry food has already been distributed among those impacted,\u201d he added.UNB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Online Report A sudden tornado struck Garagram Union of Kishoreganj Upazila in Nilphamari on Sunday morning, injuring at least 30 people and damaging over 500 houses. Most injuries were caused by falling tree branches and collapsing homes. Among the injured, Taiful, 30, Tasin, 25, Royal, 30, Gulchan, 40, and Atiq, 22, from Disirmor Munshipara […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-44","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66216,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66214\/revisions\/66216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}