On Wednesday
officials had reported that at least, 39 human beings had been killed by lightning,
throughout India’s eastern state of Bihar at some point of monsoon storms,
The deaths
were confirmed on Tuesday and Wednesday, one of the officials said from the
disaster management control room inside the country capital, Patna.
The
sufferers have been “mostly farmers or homeless, who had been outdoors.
Many thatched homes collapsed and sheds were
blown away.
The fatalities raised the loss of life toll from flooding and
accidents throughout the monsoon season in Bihar to extra than a hundred and
five.
Lightning moves
and storms are common in India during the monsoon season that stretches between
June and September.
Last
weekend, 41 human beings were killed in lightning strikes and storms in Bihar’s
neighbouring nation of Uttar Pradesh.
More than
250 people have died in rain-related incidents in India in July, a large amount
of them in Bihar and the north-eastern Assam country.
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