At least four people, including three members of the same family, were crushed to death by falling trees and collapsing walls after a storm lashed 40 villages in Joypurhat shortly after Tuesday midnight.
The deceased were identified as Shilpi Begum, 28, wife of Joynal Abedin, a day labourer of Khalishagari village in Khetlal upazila; her two children - Newaz, 7, and Niyamul, 3, and Maryam Begum, 60, of Harunja Akandapara village in Kalai upazila.
Mohammad Zakir Hossain, deputy commissioner of Joypurhat district, confirmed the incident.
He said, tin sheds of about two thousand houses and businesses were blown away and about 40,000 chickens died as the storm battered the villages.
Power supply in the district has been cut off since Tuesday night as hundreds of electricity poles were uprooted in the storm, added the deputy commissioner.
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