Indian storm victims on rampage
Saturday, 17 April 2010
KOLKATA, Apr 16 (AFP): Anger at the slow pace of relief efforts in storm-ravaged northeast India boiled over Friday as destitute and hungry locals attacked officials and looted an aid depot, a minister said.
A violent thunderstorm and tornado ravaged hundreds of thousands of mud and tin-roofed homes and killed more than 130 people Tuesday night when it tore across several northeastern states of India and neighbouring Bangladesh.
Efforts to send food aid and shelter have been frustrated by uprooted trees blocking highways and downed power lines in the worst-hit Indian states of West Bengal and Bihar, some of the poorest parts of the country.
A violent thunderstorm and tornado ravaged hundreds of thousands of mud and tin-roofed homes and killed more than 130 people Tuesday night when it tore across several northeastern states of India and neighbouring Bangladesh.
Efforts to send food aid and shelter have been frustrated by uprooted trees blocking highways and downed power lines in the worst-hit Indian states of West Bengal and Bihar, some of the poorest parts of the country.