At least four persons including a woman were killed and two others injured when lightning struck them in Odisha's Nuapada district on Sunday, police said.
The incident took place when six people engaged in house construction work at Mallikamunda village in the district were struck by lightning.
They were immediately rushed to the nearby government hospital, where four were declared brought dead, police said.
The two injured persons were under treatment at the government hospital at Komna, they added.
At least 9 people were killed and four others injured after lightning struck in Mymensingh and Sirajganj today (June 17, 2022).
In Mymensingh, six persons were killed in separate lightning incidents in Mymensingh's Nandail and Sadar upazilas, reports our local correspondent quoting Mizanur Rahman Akanda, officer-in-charge of Nandail Police Station.
The deceased were Sawon Mia (8), Swadhin Mia (10), and Abu Sayeed (12), Abu Bakkar (40), Jahangir Hossain (30) and Abu Sayeed (30). Of them, three were madrasa students and three farmers.
The three madrasa students were killed when they were hit by lightning while playing football at a field at Pongkarhati village in Nandail around 1:10 pm, said OC Mizanur.
Powerful storms in Olešnice in the Blansko region have left the town looking like winter. The streets were covered with hail, making many of the streets unnavigable.
Firefighters worked until late at night dealing with the aftermath of the storm, which according to meteorologists was possibly a dangerous supercell. Other regions are also dealing with the aftermath of the storm.
This is not the first time that a freak storm has wrought havoc in Olešnice. Twenty years ago, another severe storm brought heavy rainfall and flash floods, leaving two dead.
Yesterday afternoon there was one of the largest and strongest hailstorms in the upper Modena Apennines, from Frignano (from Serramazzoni to Lama Mocogno, from Fiumalbo to Pievepelago) to the entire Dragone Valley (Frassinoro, Montefiorino and Palagano).
In the evening, the regional network detected 70 mm of precipitation on the Cimone (which remained 'whitened' above 1500 meters above sea level), 40 on the Polle, and from 25 to 30 mm in the downstream municipalities.
Impressive the size of some hail up to about ten centimeters immortalized at Dogana di Fiumalbo, Palagano, Serramazzoni and La Verna di Montefiorino.
In Pievepelago there were no grains of exceptional size as elsewhere, but here the accumulations in the town have reached 20 centimeters in height, bringing a mid-winter landscape.
Lightning struck 30 small cattle in a high-altitude pasture in the Toktogul district of Jalal-Abad region, Head of the Jalal-Abad regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Abdulnasir Zakirov said.
The accident happened on the night of June 14-15 at Ak-Tash pasture.
Cattle breeder Rustom Tagaikulov sustained damage in the form of 30 sheep and goats.
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The storm with torrential rain, strong wind and medium hail disrupted traffic in Bucharest and delayed or even forced the diversion of flights that were to land at Henri Coanda International Airport in Otopeni.
Several trams were blocked from the intersection of Timișoara Boulevard with Brașov Street to Ghencea. People got off the trams and walked.
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