‘Deaths from lightning up 87% in recent years’ | India News – Times of India
HYDERABAD: There has been an alarming spike in deaths due to lightning strikes across country between 2010 and 2020. And climate-change induced extreme weather may only trigger more deaths.A team of researchers led by Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, studied National Crime Records Bureau data to find that lightning caused a staggering 1,01,309 deaths between…