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Lightning kills nearly 50 this week in India’s Uttar Pradesh

Women work in a paddy field adjacent to the field where another woman, Khusboo Bind, was killed by lightning on July 25 at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Shipra Bind, center in pink, shows the spot where her sister-in-law Khushboo was killed by lightning on July 25 in a paddy field at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Shipra Bind, wearing pink, who survived a lightning strike, stands by the spot where her sister-in-law Khushboo was killed by lightning on July 25 in a paddy field at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) A farmer describes the scene when Khushboo Bind was killed by lightning in the adjacent paddy field on July 25, at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Khushboo Bind, center, sits for a photograph after she was injured by lightning that killed her sister-in-law, also called Khusboo, in a paddy field on July 25, in front of their house at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Sushil Kumar Bind displays a photograph of his wife Khushboo who was killed by lightning on July 25 in a paddy field at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Khushboo Bind, center, sits for a photograph with her family members after she was injured by lightning that killed her sister-in-law, also called Khusboo, in a paddy field on July 25, in front of their house at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) A neighbour displays the half-charred anklet that Khushboo Bind was wearing when a lightning struck and killed her in a paddy field on July 25, at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Sushil Kumar Bind displays a photograph of his wife Khushboo who was killed by lightning on July 25 in a paddy field at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Sushil Kumar Bind leads his family members towards the field where his wife Khushboo who was killed by lightning on July 25 at Piparaon village on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said Thursday, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Lightning kills nearly 50 this week in India’s Uttar Pradesh