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Frequency of lightning strikes to rise in India
Hindustan Times Haryana
|May 19, 2025
A climate scientist recently lamented that more and more people, particularly farmers, in the Eastern parts of India were being killed by lightning.
NEW DELHI: As he put it, intense thunderstorms cause people, logically, to seek refuge under large trees. But, these trees are lightning conductors and those seeking shelter under them get electrocuted.
This story is from the May 19, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Haryana.
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