Lightning has killed at least 70 people, mostly farm labourers working in fields, in eastern India this week as a much anticipated summer monsoon advances across the country.
An official in the eastern state of Bihar said on Wednesday that at least 56 people had been killed by lightning since Monday. Another 24 were injured by severe thunderstorms and monsoon rains in at least 14 districts of the state.
Authorities in the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh said at least 20 people had been killed over the past two days.
The Bihar disaster management official Vyasji, who uses only one name, said that scores of cattle also died after being struck by lightning.
[culled from Aljazera]
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