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Assam : 7 killed, 21 injured as lightning strikes boat

| | Aug 16, 2015, at 03:30 am
Guwahati, Aug 15 (IBNS) : At least seven people, including three children, were killed and 21 others injured when lightning struck a boat in which they were traveling on river Beki in Assam's Barpeta district on Saturday evening, officials said.

A top police official of the lower Assam district said a total of 28 people, including children and women of two villages Gogolmari and Santra, were traveling in a boat to Kandapara area.

The incident took place at Milanbazar area when lightning struck the boat.

"Seven persons, including three children, were killed in the incident, " the police official said.

The injured persons had rushed to Barpeta Medical college hospital.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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