Agartala : A school student and a woman were killed and five other people injured in lightning strikes in Tripura, official said here on Monday.
Alani Tripura, 12, a Class 6 student, and Sharmistha Debbarma, 42, were killed on the spot when lightnings struck them on Sunday in Longtharai Valley of the northern Tripura and Kalyanpur in western Tripura respectively.
An official of the disaster management centre here said several people were also injured in the lightning.
Rain, accompanied by high velocity winds, lightning and thunder, has been lashing Tripura since Sunday, damaging crops and uprooting electric poles and trees.
Though the four-month-long (June-September) monsoon will hit the northeastern region next month, due to seasonal Nor’wester (cyclonic rainstorm) spells of rains and cyclones have been occurring intermittently since last month in most parts of the northeastern region comprising eight states, including Sikkim.
Meteorological department director Dilip Saha told IANS: “The Nor’wester would continue till the onset of monsoon next month. The recurring Nor’wester is now active in entire eastern and northeast India and few other places in the country.”