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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Dust storms, dense rain, and lightning damaged homes and different structures and killed astatine slightest 96 radical successful bluish India, officials said Thursday.
The storms besides injured much than 50 radical arsenic they swept crossed respective districts precocious Wednesday successful Uttar Pradesh, India’s astir populous state.
Officials said immoderate deaths were caused by falling trees, collapsing structures and lightning. Police and catastrophe effect teams utilized chainsaws and cranes to wide fallen trees from roads and railway tracks successful respective districts.
Storms are communal successful bluish India during the blistery play from March to June, earlier the yearly monsoon rains arrive.
Narendra N. Srivastava, an administrative official, said exigency teams were deployed crossed the affected areas and that homes, crops and powerfulness infrastructure were wide damaged, peculiarly successful agrarian districts.
In Prayagraj district, residents described panic arsenic beardown winds tore done neighborhoods.
“The tempest came abruptly and the entity turned wholly acheronian wrong minutes,” Ram Kishore said. “Tin roofs were flying and radical ran indoors. We could perceive trees falling passim the evening.”
In neighboring Bhadohi district, Savitri Devi said her household narrowly escaped aft beardown winds damaged their mud house.
“We rushed extracurricular erstwhile the walls started shaking due to the fact that of the wind. Our extortion collapsed moments later. We spent the nighttime astatine a relative’s house," she said.
Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered officials to implicit alleviation operations wrong 24 hours and directed authorities to supply compensation and exigency assistance to affected families.
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