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Lightning kills at least 107 in a day as monsoon storms batter India

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Some 83 people killed in the state of Bihar after being struck by lightning, and another 24 died in Uttar Pradesh state.

At least 107 people died from lightning strikes in northern and eastern India, officials said, during the early stages of the annual monsoon season.

Some 83 people were killed in the impoverished eastern state of Bihar after being struck by lightning, and another 24 died in northern Uttar Pradesh state on Thursday. Dozens more were injured, officials said.

Lightning strikes during the June-September annual monsoon are fairly common in India.

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Lightning strikes kill 6 in Nepal

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Lightning has killed six people -four in Saptari and two in Makwanpur district on Thursday.

According to the District Police Office, Makwanpur, Samjhana Ghising (17 years old) and Bina Ghising (25 years old) of Bakaiya Rural Municipality were killed by lightning.

According to the District Police Office, Saptari, Chhedi Thakur (60 years) and Bechan Yadav(27 years) from Mahadev Rural Municipality-2 were killed by lightning near the Koshi Barrage. They had gone to bathe in the Koshi River.

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Large tornado captured in Xilinhot, north-eastern China

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Large tornado captured in Xilinhot, north-eastern China
Motorists have captured the terrifying moment a tornado hovered through the Chinese countryside, appearing to approach their cars.

The giant column of wind struck the suburbs of Xilinhot city in north-eastern China's Inner Mongolia on Wednesday afternoon, according to China's weather authority.

One video released by the Chinese National Meteorological Center (NMC) on Twitter-like Weibo shows one motorist filming the giant column of wind from a fair distance.


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7,347 lightning strikes in winter over Tasman Sea, New Zealand as storm hits North Island

Flooding on the Coromandel Peninsula at the start of June.
Flooding on the Coromandel Peninsula at the start of June.
There have been thousands of lightning strikes off the top of the North Island.

Niwa Weather said there were 7347 lightning strikes in the Tasman Sea west of the country by about 3.30pm Wednesday.

Shortly after 7pm, MetService forecaster Sonja Farmer said most lightning was still to the west of Northland although there had been at least one strike in the Far North around the Karikari Peninsula.

"Most of the lightning at the moment is offshore but everything is sinking down over the country, so that all should get closer," she said.

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Singapore reels from widespread flash floods

Flash floods strike Singapore after intense downpour
Flash floods strike Singapore after intense downpour
Flash floods were reported in many areas of Singapore after heavy showers early today.

In a Facebook post, water agency PUB said the floods were reported at Jurong Town Hall Road, the junction of Bedok North Avenue 4 and Upper Changi Road, as well as New Upper Changi Road.

Opera Estate, an area with low-lying service roads within private residential estates, was also affected.

According to PUB, the first flash flood was reported at 8.30am and the agency's quick response team was immediately deployed to all sites. Flash floods at all locations had subsided by 9.20am and the cause of the flooding is under investigation.


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Istanbul besieged by floods, hail storms & rare tornado during epic storms

The flooding in Istanbul's Esenyurt, June 23, 2020.
© IHAThe flooding in Istanbul's Esenyurt, June 23, 2020.
Istanbul has been besieged by foul weather, with large parts of the city flooded, others lashed by ferocious winds or towering waves, sporadic hail storms forcing residents to take cover, and to top it all off, a fearsome tornado.

Despite warnings from Turkey's General Directorate of Meteorology, the roughly 16 million residents of Istanbul could not have imagined the onslaught of bad weather that awaited them Tuesday.

A rare tornado formed off the city's western districts, captured in all its terrifying glory by residents already fleeing the torrential rain and violent hail storms.


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Severe hailstorm pounds Sayanogorsk, Russia

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Severe hailstorm hits Sayanogorsk, Khakassia - RUSSIA, June 20, 2020.


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Lightning bolt kills man and 4 oxen in Cambodia

On June 21, 2020, at 5:30 pm, a flash of lightning killed a 68 years old man, Meas Chrun, and his 4 oxen, in Kbeng village, Borseth district, Kampong Speu.
On June 21, 2020, at 5:30 pm, a flash of lightning killed a 68 years old man, Meas Chrun, and his 4 oxen, in Kbeng village, Borseth district, Kampong Speu.
A man and four oxen were killed by lightning as they returned from a rice field to their home in Baset district's Svay Rompear commune in Kampong Speu on Sunday.

Commune police chief Em Sarorn identified the victim as 69-year-old Mean Chrun.

Before the incident, Chrun and his two grandsons travelled by oxcart to the rice fields, about 700m from their home, to plough the land. His grandsons returned home in the afternoon with a bucket of snails they picked at the field for their parents to cook for dinner, Sarorn said.

"At 5:30 pm, while it was raining, the victim was riding the oxcart back home, but was struck and killed by lightning. His four oxen also died."

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Severe hailstorm strikes Kastel Luksic, Croatia

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Severe hailstorm hits Kastel Luksic, Dalmatia - CROATIA, June 20, 2020.


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Summer flood, hurricane winds hit Adana, Turkey

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Severe flood,hurricane winds hits Adana - TURKEY, June 19, 2020.