Dozens more die in storms ravaging India
Winds of more than 100km/h struck parts of north, east and southern India late on Sunday, uprooting trees and electricity pylons, and damaging houses
New Delhi — At least 70 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after a fresh wave of violent sandstorms and thunderstorms battered India, officials said on Monday. Winds of more than 100km/h struck parts of north, east and southern India late on Sunday, uprooting trees and electricity pylons, and damaging houses, officials from federal and state disaster management agencies said. Forty people were killed by hail and thunderstorms that brought down walls, trees and power pylons in Uttar Pradesh state, TP Gupta of the state disaster management department told AFP. Another 80 were injured by the winds that flattened nearly 40 houses across India’s most populous state. Fourteen people were killed on Sunday by thunderstorms in West Bengal and 12 by lightning bolts in Andhra Pradesh. The southern state had also been hit by more than 40,000 lightning bolts on May 1, killing 14 people in a matter of hours. The latest storms also killed two people each in Bihar and the capital New...
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