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At least 10 people were killed in lightning strikes in Odisha due to heavy rainfall. The lightning strikes occurred in six districts, claiming four lives in Khurda district, two in Bolangir, and one each in Angul, Boudh, Jagatsinghpur, and Dhenkanal. The coastal region, including Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, experienced heavy rain and lightning strikes.
Students, who had assembled on the hilltop for online owing to poor studies, were found in an unconscious state after the lightning struck them.
Three teenaged school students were struck by lightning while they were huddled together on a hilltop near their village in Kandhamal district for an online group study, police said on Thursday.