Satish Aditya
Chhapra : Lightning killed ten farmers in riverine area of village Sherpur under Muffasil police station in Saran District in North Bihar during hailstorm on April 26, 2020, before noon. Around 35 farmers had taken shelter in a hutment during sudden heavy rains when lightning struck them. Fifteen other farmers sustained serious burn injuries due to the lightning and are undergoing treatment at Sadar Hospital, Chhapra.
According to the villagers, the farmers of three villages had gone to diara field to see their vegetable (Parwal) crop when it started raining. They rushed to a hutment located nearby to escape rain. After sometime lightning struck the hutment. The place of occurrence is around 68 km away from Patna.
All the injured persons were taken to Chhapra sadar hospital by police and villagers. After examination of injured persons, Dr Ram Eqbal Singh, Deputy Superintendent of hospital, said that 10 persons had died while 15 persons had sustained serious burn injuries.
The deceased included Nitish Kumar, Sahdeo Kumar, Jitendra Kumar, and Ramnath Rai, all of village Sherpur village, Arvind Kumar Singh, Ravindra Rai, Law Bahadur, and Surendra Singh of Khalpura village, and Chandradeo Rai of Bisunpura village. Saran DM Subrat Kumar Sen, who visited the hospital, said Rs 4lakh would be paid as an ex-gratia to each deceased.