Indian officials say 49 dead in this week's lightning strikes
UTTAR PRADESH, India: Police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have said that seven people, mostly farmers, were killed by lightning in a village in the northern part of the state, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week.
According to police officer Hem Raj Meena, the farmers, included four members of a family and some cattle grazers near the city of Kaushambi, had taken shelt