Guwahati, April 16: At least eight persons, including three teenagers, were killed in lightning and severe storms accompanied by heavy showers that lashed out in different districts of Assam during the past 48 hours, officials said on Saturday.
Officials of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said that the pre-monsoon summer storms, rains and lightning lashed 12 Assam districts during the past 48 hours affecting around 20,300 people in 592 villages.
Of the eight people killed, four died in Dibrugarh district followed by three in Barpeta district and one in Goalpara district.
The storm uprooted scores of trees, many electric poles, damaged 7,400 houses fully and partially in Dibrugarh, Barpeta, Kamrup (Metro), Kamrup (Rural), Nalbari, Chirrang, Darrang, Cachar, Golaghat, Karbi Anglong, Udalguri and Goalpara districts.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that heavy rainfall and thundershowers are likely to continue at a few places over Assam and Meghalaya.
