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Lightning Strikes Kill Four Women in Odisha's Sundargarh
There was a big storm in a part of India called Odisha.
Lightning from the storm hit people who were working outside on farms.
Four women sadly died because of the lightning.
Four other people were hurt.
The lightning happened in two different villages on the same day.
Some of the people who died were workers who had come from another state called Chhattisgarh.
They were working in the fields when the lightning struck.
The hurt people were taken to hospitals to get help.
Working outside during a monsoon thunderstorm can be very dangerous because lightning can strike anywhere.
Four women were killed and four others injured in two separate lightning strikes in Odisha's Sundargarh district on Tuesday.
In the first incident, two women labourers died and three others were seriously injured in a field at Chandinimal village in the Balishankara area.
The victims were reportedly migrant labourers from neighbouring Chhattisgarh who had come for agricultural work.
In a separate incident, two women were killed and one person seriously injured in a field at Indrapur village under Bonai police station limits.
The incidents highlight the vulnerability of farm workers to thunderstorms during the monsoon season.
- Who
- Four women farm workers in Sundargarh district, reportedly migrant labourers from Chhattisgarh, plus four injured people.
- What
- Two separate lightning strikes killed four women and injured four others while they worked in agricultural fields.
- Where
- Chandinimal village in the Balishankara area and Indrapur village under Bonai police station limits, in Odisha's Sundargarh district.
- When
- Tuesday, during the monsoon season.
- Why
- The women were working in open fields when thunderstorms brought lightning, highlighting farm workers' vulnerability to such weather.
Key facts
- Deaths
- 4 women killed
- Injured
- 4 people injured, conditions reported serious
- District
- Sundargarh, Odisha
- First incident
- Chandinimal village, Balishankara area - 2 dead, 3 injured
- Second incident
- Indrapur village, Bonai police station limits - 2 dead, 1 injured
- Victims
- Reportedly migrant labourers from Chhattisgarh
- Treatment
- Injured taken to a nearby hospital and Bonai Hospital
- Context
- Monsoon season thunderstorms
Sources
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