Lightning kills five children in Orissa

Mon, May 12 08:51 PM

Bhubaneswar, May 12 (IANS) At least five children were killed and four critically injured Monday afternoon in lightning strikes in a village of Orissa's Sundergarh district, the police said.

The lightning struck them when the children, all between 10 and 13, were playing on a road at Taputikra village, some 140 km from the steel city of Rourkela, a senior police official Narasimha Bhol told IANS.

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