Tripura: Lightning kills one, storm ravages different areas

Agartala: Heavy storm accompanied by rain and lightning ravaged different areas of Tripura on Sunday leaving one person dead, an official of Tripura State Disaster Management authority has said.

Apart from that, electric poles were uprooted in different locations, 160 houses crumbled down and large trees came crashing down as the stormy wind lashed out the isolated locations.

The deceased person is identified as Shyamal Debnath (45), a resident of North Rajnagar under Udaipur in the Gomati district of Tripura. Debnath was a rubber garden worker by profession. He was in the rubber garden for collection of latex when the lightning struck leading to his death.