{"id":4851,"date":"2024-07-08T23:07:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2024-07-08T23:07:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:22:01","slug":"lightning-strikes-kill-12-in-indias-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/lightning-strikes-kill-12-in-indias-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes kill 12 in India&#8217;s Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>At least 12 people were killed due to lightning in India&#8217;s eastern state of Bihar, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rains and thunderstorms accompanied by lightning strikes lashed the state during the past 24 hours affecting seven districts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the past 24 hours, due to lightning three deaths each were reported in Jamui and Kaimur, two in Rohtas and one each in Saharsa, Saran, Bhojpur and Gopalganj,&#8221; a statement issued by the Chief Minister&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said most casualties occurred when lightning struck people working in fields and taking shelter under trees during the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Every year with the onset of monsoon season hundreds die in lightning incidents in India.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people were killed due to lightning in India&#8217;s eastern state of Bihar, officials said Monday. Heavy rains and thunderstorms accompanied by lightning strikes lashed the state during the past 24 hours affecting seven districts. &#8220;During the past 24 hours, due to lightning three deaths each were reported in Jamui and Kaimur, two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","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\/4851"}],"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=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4852,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}