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A school student and a woman were killed and five other people injured in lightning strikes in Tripura, official said here on Monday.

Alani Tripura, 12, a Class 6 student, and Sharmistha Debbarma, 42, were killed on the spot when lightnings struck them on Sunday in Longtharai Valley of the northern Tripura and Kalyanpur in western Tripura respectively.

An official of the disaster management centre here said several people were also injured in the lightning.

Rain, accompanied by high velocity winds, lightning and thunder, has been lashing Tripura since Sunday, damaging crops and uprooting electric poles and trees.

Source: IANS