{"id":50391,"date":"2026-06-28T22:12:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=50391"},"modified":"2026-06-28T22:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:27:43","slug":"woman-killed-in-lightning-strike-in-sankhuwasabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/woman-killed-in-lightning-strike-in-sankhuwasabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in lightning strike in Sankhuwasabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kimathanka (Sankhuwasabha), June 28: A woman died after being hit by a lightning strike on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Kumari Rai, 39, of Chirkhang of Makalu rural municipality-1 in Sankhuwasabha district sustained critical injuries in the lightning strike and died while being taken to the Primary Health Centra in Num, according to District Police Office (DPO), Sankhuwasabha.<\/p>\n<p>Dhan Bahadur Rajbanshi, Information Officer at the DPO, shared that incident occurred while Rai was switching off the electricity metre box at her house.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the dead body has been taken to the District Hospital, Sankhuwasabha and will be handed over to family following a post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimathanka (Sankhuwasabha), June 28: A woman died after being hit by a lightning strike on Sunday. Kumari Rai, 39, of Chirkhang of Makalu rural municipality-1 in Sankhuwasabha district sustained critical injuries in the lightning strike and died while being taken to the Primary Health Centra in Num, according to District Police Office (DPO), Sankhuwasabha. Dhan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50391"}],"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=50391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50392,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50391\/revisions\/50392"}],"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=50391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}