{"id":20944,"date":"2025-04-12T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=20944"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T09:44:38","slug":"at-least-69-killed-in-thunderstorms-in-india-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/at-least-69-killed-in-thunderstorms-in-india-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 69 killed in thunderstorms in India, Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>At least 69 people were killed this week in unusually intense thunderstorms across eastern India&#8217;s Bihar state and in neighbouring Nepal, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>While flash floods and lightning kill thousands of people each year, scientists warn that rising global temperatures are unleashing a cascade of extreme weather events.<\/p>\n<p>Bihar disaster authorities said Saturday that at least 61 people had died in strong thunder and lightning storms on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Eight more people were killed in neighbouring Nepal, disaster officials told AFP, blaming &#8220;lightning strikes&#8221; on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain is forecast to hit Bihar again on Saturday, according to the local India Meteorological Department office.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, experts warned that climate change was fuelling an alarming increase in deadly lightning strikes in India, killing nearly 1,900 people a year in the world&#8217;s most populous country.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning caused 101,309 deaths between 1967 and 2020, with a sharp increase between 2010 and 2020, a team of researchers led by Fakir Mohan University in the eastern state of Odisha said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 69 people were killed this week in unusually intense thunderstorms across eastern India&#8217;s Bihar state and in neighbouring Nepal, officials said Saturday. While flash floods and lightning kill thousands of people each year, scientists warn that rising global temperatures are unleashing a cascade of extreme weather events. Bihar disaster authorities said Saturday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20946,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20944\/revisions\/20946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}