IANS
Dhaka

Nine people were killed and many others injured when a storm swept through a number of districts of Bangladesh, media reports said.
The storm also damaged crops, houses, disrupted power supply, uprooted many trees and electricity polls in Habiganj, Dinajpur, Jamalpur, Gaibandha, Kishoreganj and Sherpur districts, bdnews24.com reported.
A mother and a child in Habiganj’s Baniachang were killed when a tree fell on their house during the storm on Wednesday night.
A man was also killed in Nabiganj in the same district.
The deceased have been identified as Nurjahan Begum, 22, Robin Mia, 4, and Ramzan Ali alias Lal Mia, 40.
Baniachang police station in-charge Nirmalendu Chakrabarty said a tree fell on the tin-shed house, killing the mother and child on the spot.
Lal Mia from Nabiganj was pronounced dead after he was rushed to Upazila Health Complex, said the area’s police station in-charge Liakat Ali.
Earlier, in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur, a child died when the walls of a house collapsed in the storm.
The powerful storm also caused damage and disrupted electricity supply across the upazila.
The storm that lasted for about 20 minutes damaged paddy and corn fields and uprooted hundreds of trees, Chirirbandar Union chairman Shah Motiur Rahman said.

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