Kolkata Rains LIVE Updates: 5 Dead; Train And Metro Services Suspended As Heavy Rain Causes Waterlogging

A X user shared visuals of waterlogged streets in Kolkata on Tuesday morning.

Many schools have declared a holiday in the wake of very heavy downpour and waterlogged streets.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport was waterlogged on Tuesday morning.

A Metro Railway Kolkata spokesperson told PTI, that in order to ensure passengers' safety, services have been suspended between Shahid Khudiram and Maidan stations since morning hours.

Train services in the Sealdah South Section and Circular Railway line has been suspended, while skeleton services are being run in the Sealdah North and main sections, an Eastern Railway official told PTI.

Train services have been partially affected to and from Howrah and Kolkata terminal stations of Eastern Railway, he added.