Sundargarh: Three persons including two brothers were killed and two others seriously injured when lightning struck them during a hockey match at Shankarabahal village under Talasara police station limits in Odisha’s Sundargarh district in the afternoon on Sunday.
According to reports, the people of Shankarabahal village were watching a hockey match on the outskirts of the village when heavy rain lashed. At this, some of the villagers ran to a nearby tree near the field and stood under it to escape from rain when lightning struck suddenly killing three persons on the spot.
The two seriously injured villagers were rushed to the district headquarters hospital.
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