Monsoon showers over the past two days brought great cheer and relief to people in many parts of north India. But the joy was overwhelmed by gloom as over a hundred people were killed by lightning, most of them in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
At least 100 people have died and 20 more received injuries in the past few days as lightning strikes along with heavy rains and violent thunderstorms swept through Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Most of the victims were farm workers, Indian authorities said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he was “deeply anguished” by the loss of life.
