At least seven people including a baby died after a nor’wester lashed Bangladesh today.

In Sylhet, two including a baby died after a nor’wester lashed Sylhet’s Omaninagar upazila this afternoon.

Sixteen-month-old Hasan Ahmed was washed away and drowned in a pond after a house in Sikandapur village was damaged in the storm, our local correspondent reports quoting officials.

Sadia Begum, 45, who was visiting the house of a relative, died after she was struck by a loose tin from the roof of a building in Doshal village during the time of the storm.

Osmaninagar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Anisur Rahman endorsed both cases of deaths.

Around 100 houses were damaged and a large number of trees uprooted during the storm that struck the district around 5:00pm, the upazila administration officer said.

In Magura, farmer Akram Hossain, 35, suffered injuries as the hailstorm hit him while working field at Dohorsingra village in Sadar upazila around afternoon.

He died on the way to hospital, reports our Magura correspondent quoting district’s Deputy Commissioner Atiqur Rahman.

In Dinajpur, one person, Said Ali, 55, son of Lal Mohammad in Parbatipur upazila, was killed during a hailstorm, Raihan Ali, Residential Medical Officer of Parbatipur upazila Health Complex, said.

In Jessore, a young boy, Laijul Islam, 17, died from electrocution as a live electric war fell on him at Prembag in Abhaynagar upazila this evening during a storm, our Benapole correspondent reports quoting Anisur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Abhaynagar Police Station.

In Rangpur, two persons – yet to be identified – died from electrocution  in Badarganj and Gangachara upazilas, during storm our local correspondent reports quoting Gangachara Police Station OC Mashiur Rahman and Badarganj police’s OC Akhteruzzaman.