Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 24 2010:
A high speed wind that all of a sudden ripped through northern parts of Manipur blown away many habitations in Sajouba and Mao areas besides felling down many trees in Senapati district on Saturday.
But there's no report of human casualty till the filing of this report.
Important hill stations in neighboring Nagaland including state capital Kohima was not spared by nature's fury which originates from western front, according to lsources reaching here.
Meteorological office in Imphal couldn't be contacted for details.
However local sources confirmed that two houses belonging to one S Daikho and K Ashuli of Sajouba village were already blown away when the high velocity wind struck at the village.
"The high speed wind led to the breaking down a major branch of the sacred dispersal tree or wild pear tree at Sajouba village", Daiho, a local resident informed on phone.
The place where the historic dispersal tree grows at Sajouba village, about 108 km north of Imphal is said to be the dispersal site of the teyimis and it is hardly 2 km north to Makhel, another sacred place for many ethnic communities where they settled and migrated long back.