Strong winds and rains wreaked havoc at Satya Nagar here on Monday while an old tree in the Rupa Apartments was uprooted and broke two asbestos-roof houses of the nearby slums.
The irate slums dwellers rushed out of their houses and locked the main gate of the apartment. The Kharevel Nagar police reached the spot and took control over the situation.
Meanwhile, an Odisha Fire and Disaster team rushed to the spot and launched an operation to remove the uprooted tree.
With the cooperation of local Corporator Banupriya Das, Clean Odisha Charitable Trust members Biswa Ranjan Ray and Tushar Kant Patnaik, apartment members Prakash Chandra Samal, Ashok Biswal, A Hamid and Sovan Mohanty, the team cleaned the spot.