{"id":269459,"date":"2024-07-07T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T03:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=269459"},"modified":"2024-07-07T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T04:01:02","slug":"lightning-strikes-killed-19-in-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=269459","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Strikes Killed 19 In Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Jul 7 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; At least 19 people were killed and seven others injured, due to lightning strikes, in India&#8217;s eastern state of Bihar, state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heavy rains and thunderstorms accompanied by lightning strikes lashed the state during the past 24 hours, affecting 10 districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports said most casualties occurred when lightning struck people working in fields, and taking shelter under trees during the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India Meteorological Department has issued a yellow alert for the next 24 hours, predicting heavy rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning in the northern, south-east, and south-central parts of Bihar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year with the onset of monsoon season, hundreds die in lightning incidents in India.&#8211; NNN-PTI &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Jul 7 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; At least 19 people were killed and seven others injured, due to lightning strikes, in India&#8217;s eastern state of Bihar, state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said, yesterday. Heavy rains and thunderstorms accompanied by lightning strikes lashed the state during the past 24 hours, affecting 10 districts. Reports said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":269461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,322,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269462,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269459\/revisions\/269462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}