Earth Changes
According to officials at Bihar disaster management department, 18 people lost their lives in the past 24 hours due to lightning strikes in nine districts of the state.
The deaths have taken place in Banka, Jamui, Nalanda, Nawada, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Jehanabad, Lakhisarai and East Champaran.
"Six people were killed in Banka district, three each in Jamui and Nalanda, and one each in Nawada, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Jehanabad, Lakhisarai and East Champaran districts," an official at Bihar disaster management department said.
The deceased have been identified as Phagua Dehury and Siba Dehury of Gunudei village said police.
Phagua and his nephew Siba, who belong to the fishermen community, had gone to river Brahmani yesterday for fishing.
"Two persons of our village Gundeipur have been killed in an elephant attack. One is Phagunath Dehury(55) and other is his nephew Siba(20). They are fishermen and their occupation is fishing. While they were returning home after fishing they were attacked by an elephant leading to their death," said Sarpanch Gundeipur Panchayat Jyotirmayee Lenka.
The quake struck at approximately 06:12:42 (UTC). The US Tsunami Warning System raised the alarm over 'hazardous waves' due to strike coastal communities from Sand Point to Kodiak and Cold Bay.
As violent thunderstorms rattled south St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday night, four people in the city were struck by lightning.
At 9:35 p.m. on Sunday, the St. Louis Fire Department released information regarding the lightning strikes on social media. The department reported that the four victims -- all of whom were men -- were transported by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and one was in critical condition.
"Thunderstorms with a tremendous amount of cloud-to-ground lightning affected Greater St. Louis Sunday evening," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Samuhel said.
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Officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the incident took place in the intervening night of Monday- Tuesday.
They said the lightning hit a seasonal dhok in Gumsar, leaving three nomads dead on the spot who belong to Surankote area of the district.
They added that many animals including goat and sheep, whose number is believed to be in several hundreds, also got perished in the incident.
Sub Divisional Magistrate Surankote, Saleem Qureshi said that teams are rushing to the spot to assess the loss.
A 50-mile-wide swarm of flying ants has been making its way over the UK - and it's so huge that it has been spotted from space.
The enormous cloud of insects was picked up by the Met Office's weather radar over Kent and Sussex, on England's southeast coast.
The weather service said smaller swarms could be seen over London.
A video was released by the Met Office, alongside a tweet saying: "It's not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise...















Comment: Also on July 21, lightning strikes killed at least 8 in Birbhum, West Bengal.