Agartala: A two-minute high intensity tornado hit the bordering village of Machhima in Sonamura along Indo-Bangladesh border here on Saturday and left as many as nine people, including a 13-year-old girl, injured.
According to reports, altogether 21 houses of 15 poverty-stricken minority families had been severely damaged in the violently-rotating column of air.
The raging storm also damaged a Madrasa house.
The local administration paid compensation to the families of the victim.
“All the injured people were shifted to Sonamura sub-divisional hospital and they were stated out of danger,” said Sipahijala district magistrate K D Choudhury and added the administration had extended all possible help to the victims.
Earlier, a tornado had hit another bordering village of the locality, leaving six persons injured and about 50 houses damaged on June 3. The monsoon shower over the past 48 hours has inundated the low-lying areas of Agartala, Khowai, Kamalpur, Kumarghat, Kailashahar and Dharmanagar and altogether 300 families were rendered homeless.
The first monsoon shower has claimed a woman and left 14 others, including 11 children, injured in various places when lightening stuck accompanied by thundershower across the state.
Met officials forecast more thundershower in next 48 hours. (UNI)