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Separate incidents of Nor'wester (Kalbaisakhi) thunderstorms with lightning strikes claimed as many as ten lives in different places across Odisha on Friday.
The deaths due to lightning strikes include three from Koraput, two from Ganjam, two from Jajpur, two from Dhenkanal, and one from Gajapati districts of the State.
In the Koraput district, the abrupt storm caused the deaths of three people in the Laxmipur locality. Among the deceased were an elderly woman and her granddaughter from Pordiguda village of Odiapentha panchayat. The deceased woman was identified as Burudi Mandinga, aged 60, and her granddaughter as Kasha Mandinga, aged 18...