Jaipur, June 06: Four persons, including a girl, were killed and at least ten injured in a severe dust storm that hit Alwar district, a senior official said here today. In the Bhiwadi industrial area, 85 kms from Alwar, one labourer was killed in a scrap factory after tin sheds fell on him due to storm last night, while a cyclist was hit by a flying tin at Harchanpura village, superintendent of police (Alwar) S P Khadgawat said.
In a coincidence of accidents, the cyclist's daughter who was at her village home was also killed when a portion of the house collapsed, the SP said. At Mundana village, an aged person was buried alive as a temporary shed collapsed on him, he said.
Power supply was disrupted in many areas and many trees got uprooted on the district highways due to the storm, he said. The SP and district collector visited the storm affected places last night and announced the ex-gratia of Rs 10,000 each to next of the kin of deceased, and Rs 2000 to the injured. Bureau Report