1 Dies, Scores Injured As Frightening Winds Leave Behind Trail Of Destruction
IMRAN MUZAFFAR
Srinagar, Mar 20: One person was killed as violent wind wreaked havoc in the Kashmir Valley Tuesday leaving thousands of people without power supply amid smashed rooftops, uprooted trees, toppled power lines and poles and prompting the government to declare high alert.
A state government official said the windstorm which started Monday night and continued Tuesday without respite claimed its first victim in north Kashmir’s Ganderbal district when 50-year-old Muhammad Maqbool Magray died on the spot after a Chinar tree fell on his house crushing the victim under it.
“Seventeen other persons were injured in similar incidents across Kashmir due to the high speed winds blowing 80 kilometers per hour per hour,” an official spokesman said.
