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The season’s first nor’wester lashed the capital city, Sylhet, Comilla and other places in northern and central regions of the country early Tuesday, Met Office sources said.

A trough of a westerly low, stretching over Bangladesh from across the north western border, triggered the seasonal storm in the early hours of Tuesday, the sources said.

In Dhaka after rumblings of thunders and dust storm the rainstorm hit the capital at 3:10am.

However, the winds subsided after five minutes with a gust reaching 74 km per hour. It caught the citizens virtually unprepared in their sleeps, scurrying to shut the windows.

Despite heavy rumblings of thunder the showers only totalled eight mm in the metropolis, the sources said. In Sylhet, the Met Office recorded the storm blowing at a peak of 59kmph lasting only one minute from 4:03am.

The rains totalled seven mm in the north eastern city.

In Comilla, the storm starting at 4:30am lasted until 5:00am. It had a peak of 52 kmph. The Met Office sources said they also recorded rains at different parts of the country in the early hours of Tuesday.

Bogra had the highest 21mm followed by 12 mm each at Mymensingh and Tangail, 10mm at Dinajpur, nine mm at Saidpur, six mm at Srimangal, five mm at Feni, three mm at Rangpur, two mm each at Jessore and Maijdi. Case against

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