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Wall collapse kills 4 during Monday's nor'wester

City plunges into darkness

AMINUL ISLAM
Three children and a rickshawpuller died when a wall collapsed on shanties at Bhasantek during a nor'wester that lashed the capital and areas close by on Monday night.
The victims are Khurshid, 30, a rickshawpuller, Kaiyum and Sashina each seven years old, and a one-and-half-month old child whose identity could not be immediately known. Six people were also injured.
Police said the boundary wall of a homeopathic college at Bhasantek collapsed on the nearby shanties of a slum during the storm at around 10:30 Monday night.
Police and fire brigade personnel recovered the bodies and handed those over to their relatives.
According to the Met Office at Dhaka, the nor'wester packing a speed of about 100 kilometres per hour (kph) hit the capital and its adjacent areas from north-northwesterly direction at
around 10:00pm.
The storm accompanied by thundershower lasted for nearly an hour disrupting public life as well as the Bangla New Year celebrations. This was the first nor'wester of the new season.
The nor'wester also lashed the northern districts of Bogra and Rangpur and northeastern Sylhet Monday night and in early hours yesterday.
At Dhaka, the met office clocked the speed of the nor'wester Agargaon at 96 kph at 10:05pm and in adjacent areas of Zia International Airport at 110 kph at 10:18pm.
The nor'wester hit Bogra twice in the early hours yesterday. Its speed at Bogra was 78 kph between 1:38am and 1:48am, and 65 kph between 7:10am and 7:13am. At Rangpur, its speed was 61 kph at 12:32am to 12:45am. At Sylhet, the speed was
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recorded at 57 kph at 5:00am.
Met office recorded 44 mm rainfall at Dhaka during the storm, 33 mm at Tangail and 24 mm at Ishwardi.
Much of the capital plunged into darkness as the power supply was disrupted due to the storm. In many areas power supply was disrupted for an hour to 12 hours.
Dhaka Electricity Supply Authority (DESA) said power supply was disrupted for nearly an hour at Mirpur, Satmasjid Road, Lalbagh, Kalabagan, Paltan and other parts of the city after insulators at 132-KV substation at Kalyanpur broke down during the storm.
Many residents of Shewrapara said power supply was restored after 14 hours at 12:00pm yesterday. It was restored at Kalyanpur at 10:00am, at Mirpur section-2 at 7:00am and at Kazipara at 5:00am.
Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) said in many places electric wires were torn and fuses of the transformer burnt during the storm.
DESA said the electricity supply in the city last night was normal.
Acute water crisis hit many parts of the city including Mirpur and Mohammadpur yesterday due to the power disruption.
The nor'wester damaged tin-sheds, uprooted trees and blew away billboards and sign boards in many areas. Thousands of jubilant people, including women and children who were celebrating the New Year on Dhaka University campus, ran for safety.
The power supply at the university was snapped and cultural programmes at the Teachers-Students Centre were stopped abruptly. Many trees on the campus were uprooted. Several shops were damaged by fire stemming from electric short circuit at Tejgaon, Karwan Bazar and Malibagh.
Flights of Malaysian Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Bangladesh Biman touched down at Bangkok after they failed to land at Dhaka due to the storm.