Agartala, May 9 (IANS): Cyclonic storms accompanied by lightning and rain continued to create havoc in Tripura for the fifth day on Thursday, killing seven people, including five women and injuring 20 others, an official said here.
"Sixty-year-old Ramani Debbarma and her 17-year-old-son Utpal died when huge landslides buried their home at Simna in western Tripura on Wednesday night," an official of the Relief Department told reporters.
The Met Office in Agartala on Thursday forecast a spell of rains and cyclonic storms in the next 48 hours.
"A team of officials and workers under supervision of Sub-Divisional Magistrate Dhiraj Debbarma were still on the job to clear the huge mudslide and to recover the bodies," the Relief Department official said.
Laxmirung Reang, 32, and Kusum Roy Tripura, 35, both tribal women, died after a lightning struck them late on Wednesday at Sabroom in southern Tripura, 140 km south of here.
Thunder, lightning, uprooting of trees and electrical poles killed two more women in northern Tripura and at least 20 people were injured in different parts of the state as the stormy weather conditions continued in the northeastern State since Sunday.