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Sandip Kumar Mahto (15), Laden Sai (15), Tabrez Sai (14) and Farukh Sai (14) died when lightning struck a house at Alkusa village in Siyaljori, around 20km from the Bokaro district headquarters. Manisha Kumari (5) was returning home to Jara village in Petarwar, around 45km away, through a field with her farmer father when the tragedy struck.
Bokaro district disaster management officer Shakti Kumar said compensation worth Rs 4 lakh each would be paid to the families of the deceased after the completion of post-mortem.
With this, total number of bolt deaths in Bokaro rose to 14 since April this year.
Six persons have been injured and 19 bovine animals killed during the same period.
Vicky Chastey filmed this dust devil in a field at Sticklepath in Dartmoor, Devon, on Saturday afternoon
Vicky Chastey filmed the rare whirlwind as she was hay baling with her husband and children in Devon.
Hay was lifted up to 200ft in the air when the field was hit by a mini tornado, leaving her kids shouting 'wow, what is that?'.
The person, whose name was not immediately released, was struck at about 2:15 p.m. in the vicinity of the 6000 block of Midnight Pass Road on Siesta Key.
Visiting first-responders and lifeguard performed CPR on the victim until paramedics arrived. The victim was taken to a local hospital, where they were pronounced dead, according to the sheriff's office.
The investigation is continuing.
Footage of a powerful storm in Russia has recently emerged online. Eyewitnesses call the storm "apocalyptic," given its scale and the damage it has inflicted.
Comment: More images from the storm:
On the 20th a similar down burst was reported in the same area:
And more signs of the changing weather in Russia was a plague of mosquitoes brought about by the record breaking floods and unusual heat.
© Perisher/FacebookStaff in Perisher are reporting historic snow depth
Resorts on the south-eastern coast of the country were hit with blizzard conditions at the start of this week - the storm, which has been nicknamed Stormin' Norman, battered resorts for six days.
Severe weather warnings were issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for the regions of Victoria and New South Wales.
It's an extreme weather pattern than mimics the series of storms that hit the Alps at the start of last winter.
Australia's top five resorts have all benefited from Norman's snowy onslaught. Perisher, arguably the most well-known resort, and part of Vail Resort's Epic Pass, received 71cm of snow in the space of three days and is opening new parts of its ski area daily.
Rain slowed Thursday. Venture Drive is currently blocked as crews work to repair a pair of 20-to-30-foot sinkholes along the road.
Channel 2's Berndt Petersen was at the scene as trucks carrying heavy equipment arrived to start repairs, but by Thursday afternoon, none of the major repair work had begun.
Lightning kills bull
According to farmer Doddau Venkataiah, while he was tilling his field, he left the plough tied with the bull in the field and came out to take shelter from the sudden thunder showers.
However, as soon as he came out of the field, sudden lightning struck the bull, killing it on the spot.
Venkatiah has lost his bull worth Rs. 50,000 and he is helpless to carry out his farming without the bull.
According to local people, the incident took place late Tuesday night.
"Our family is devastated and especially at this time when tilling of paddy field is in full swing. We don't know what we will do and how are we going to till our land," the owner said.
Strong storms and heavy rain has caused severe flooding in parts of western Pennsylvania, spurring dozens of evacuations and damaging numerous vehicles and other property. Pictured are crews working to clean up floodwaters in Baldwin Street, Bridgeville, on Wednesday night
The body of 64-year-old Wendy Abbott was discovered in McLaughlin Run, Bridgeville, after she was swept away during flash floods. Abbott, who lived locally, was reported missing by family after going for a drive.
Floods also ravaged nearby Bethel Park where diners at the Trolley Shop Inn stood on tables as they waited to be rescued while cars floated in surging floodwaters outside.
'All of a sudden, water started coming in the one door and they tried to squeegee it,' patron Shirley Maurin told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 'And then it just rushed in.'
Maurin said the water rose quickly, forcing diners on top of tables 'until they were able to come in and take us out one by one in the water with the life jackets'.
Comment: Other recent fatalities in India due to lightning occurred in the states of Bihar with 9 deaths and Odisha where 2 were killed. Across Bangladesh a total of 6 have died after being struck in the last two days.