Lightning kills 23 in India

Twenty-three people were tragically killed and ten others injured during thunderstorms and heavy rain in eastern India, Report says, citing the Associated Press.

The dead includes 13 people working on farms in Gopalganj district, 175 kilometers north of Patna, the Bihar state capital. The injured are receiving hospital treatment.

Heavy rains before the onset of the monsoon season have hit the region. In July last year, lightning killed 39 people in Bihar during monsoon rains, which lasted until September.