NEW DELHI: Storms and lightning across a swathe of northern India have killed at least 47 people, officials said Tuesday, the latest deaths from freak weather that has battered the country this month. Disaster management officials in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand states said a combined total of 47 people had died in overnight storms across the region. 11 of them due to lightning,” Yoginder Singh, a state disaster management official, told AFP. Gupta, an official from the Uttar Pradesh disaster management department. Nearly 200 people have died in Uttar Pradesh this month alone as strong winds and sandstorms brought down walls and electricity poles.

Source: New Strait Times May 29, 2018 09:45 UTC