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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bihar: Reducing Lightning-Related Deaths a new Challenge -Mohd. Imran Khan

Bihar: Reducing Lightning-Related Deaths a new Challenge -Mohd. Imran Khan

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published Published on Nov 21, 2022   modified Modified on Nov 22, 2022

-Newsclick.in

According to the DMD's figures, 375 people were killed by lightning strikes in the state in 2022.

Patna: Climate change-induced extreme weather events like increasing lightning strikes killed more than 1100 people, mostly poor, in Bihar, in the last three years. As per the officials of the state disaster management department (DMD), the increase in deaths in lightning incidents has emerged as a new challenge despite a massive campaign to create awareness to reduce casualties.

According to the DMD's figures, 375 people were killed by lightning strikes in the state in 2022. Of this, 104 people died in July, 96 in September and 64 in June.

The possibility of more lightning strikes is less in the coming days because lightning strikes are usually reported during the June-September-October monsoon season in the state.

As per official figures, in 2021, 280 people were killed by lightning in Bihar. Lightning killed 459 people in Bihar in 2020, 253 in 2019, 139 in 2018,180 in 2017, and 114 in 2016. Lightning strikes killed 1,800 people in the last seven years in the state. It may be less than the floods, but one of the highest casualties due to natural calamities, much more than heat and cold waves. The State government has been providing compensation of Rs 4 lakh to each of the families of the lightning victims.

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Newsclick.in, 21 November, 2022, https://www.newsclick.in/Bihar-Reducing-Lightning-Related-Deaths-Challenge


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