Jalgaon, June 16 -- Three members of a family were killed, and two others were injured after lightning struck them in Chalisgaon taluka of the district.
The victims were standing under a tree in a field to shelter themselves from a spell of heavy rain on Sunday evening, when lightning struck them, police said on Monday.
The deceased have been identified as Dashrath Udal Pawar (aged 24), his nephew Dilip Pawar (14, both of Konganagar) and schoolboy Samadhan Prakash Rathod (9).
Dashrath had been married 15 days ago.
The Pawar family had gone to a field near the village in Chalisgaon taluka to plant cotton, when incident occurred, sources added.
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