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How Lightning Strikes Kill, Injure Thousands of People Every Year
By Rajvi Desai
Jun 26, 2020
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In the early stages of the monsoon in India this year, at least 107 people have died from lightning strikes, both in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, government officials announced Thursday. Common around this time of year, lightning strikes kill or maim thousands of people each year, making it a not-as-uncommon phenomenon as popularly believed.
How do lightning strikes work?
Lightning can injure or kill people in three major ways. The direct strike — one of the most popular but least common — is when a ray of lightning strikes a person in an open area straight from the sky. It’s the most deadly, but it “hardly ever happens,” American meteorologist, Ron Holle, tells The Washington Post. Another kind is the contact