At least 69 folks have been killed this week in unusually intense thunderstorms throughout japanese India’s Bihar state and in neighbouring Nepal, officers stated Saturday (April 12, 2025).
While flash floods and lightning kill hundreds of individuals annually, scientists warn that rising world temperatures are unleashing a cascade of maximum climate occasions.
Bihar catastrophe authorities stated Saturday (April 12, 2025) that at least 61 folks had died in robust thunder and lightning storms on Thursday (April 10, 2025) and Friday (April 11, 2025).
Eight extra folks have been killed in neighbouring Nepal, catastrophe officers informed AFP, blaming “lightning strikes” on Wednesday (April 9, 2025) and Thursday (April 10, 2025).
Heavy rain is forecast to hit Bihar once more on Saturday (April 12, 2025), in response to the native India Meteorological Department workplace.
Last yr, consultants warned that local weather change was fuelling an alarming enhance in lethal lightning strikes in India, killing almost 1,900 folks a yr in the world’s most populous nation.
Lightning brought about 101,309 deaths between 1967 and 2020, with a pointy enhance between 2010 and 2020, a workforce of researchers led by Fakir Mohan University in the japanese state of Odisha stated.
Published – April 12, 2025 01:40 pm IST
