Overview
- A wave of lightning during heavy rain in southern India left at least four people dead and several injured, according to police and local reports.
- In Karnataka, strikes killed fisherman Vinayak Kharvi near Apsarakonda in Uttara Kannada, farmer Kariyappa Gennakihal in Raichur, and Jayashree Hanamantappa Shirasangi in Dharwad.
- Raichur police registered a case at Mudgal Police Station after the Komalapur strike that seriously injured Basavaraj, while Jayashree’s husband in Dharwad suffered minor injuries and the body was sent for postmortem.
- In Kerala’s Kozhikode district, police said Jaison died at a poultry farm in Koombara and five others were hurt in separate strikes in Koombara and Nerukumchal, with the injured reported stable.
- May’s pre-monsoon thunderstorms often bring dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning, and officials noted a similar deadly strike in nearby Malappuram the previous week.