Doomdooma, Nov. 3 -- An overnight storm damaged several old Assam-type houses and other buildings in Sadiya in Assam's Tinsukia district, uprooted trees and disrupted electricity supply across parts of the area.

The storm struck Chapakhowa and adjoining areas around 2 am on Tuesday, ripping off tin roofs, damaging residential buildings, snapping power lines and bringing down electric poles.

A worker was reportedly killed after a tree fell on a potato warehouse in the Marowapatti area of Chapakhowa.

Residents said power outages and roads blocked by fallen trees hampered efforts to reach the injured worker. As ambulances could not reach the site, local residents arranged a private vehicle to take him to hospital, where doctors reportedly...