STORM IN BENGAL.
PRISON WALLS BLOWN DOWN. SEVERAL WARDERS KILLED. (UKITED PKESB ASSOCIATION—II? EUtCTBIO TELEQKAPH—COPVEIOHT.) CALCUTTA, May 9. The most severe storm within the memory of the present • generation* brought down several buildings and also tho walls of the Mymensingh gaol in East Bengal, a number of warders being killed and others injured. The prisoners were not hurt, but a few of them escaped before the police formed a cordon round the gaol. Officials worked throughout the night extricating bodies from the debris.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 11
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