In an apparently unheard-of incident a six month-old baby drowned in knee-deep water that has waterlogged her residence and most areas at Debinagar under the North Dum Dum Municipality on Saturday.
Members of the BJP’s youth wing staged an unusual protest on Friday by swimming through waterlogged streets in Salt Lake, a planned township near Kolkata, to protest against civic failures following overnight rains.
Three people died of electrocution on the waterlogged streets of West Bengal in three different parts of the state since Friday night.
According to the police, the boy lived with his family at the Vivekanand Camp in the same area.
Several apartments were inundated after Singapura Lake situated in 66 acres breached in the morning.
More than 40 families were evacuated to a flood shelter from Atryee colony.
