A farmer was killed and three college students were critically injured in lightning strikes in two separate incidents in Baleswar and Jagatsinghpur districts, respectively on Saturday.
The farmer died when lightning struck him while he was working in his farmland in Oupada village in Baleswar. He was identified as Mithun Boita.
The three college students, including two girls, were critically injured in lightning in Jagatsinghpur.
The students of the Brundaban Chandra (Junior) College, Raghunathpur were standing near the college common room when lightning struck them.
They were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital.
Meanwhile, the IMD Regional Office in Bhubaneswar on Saturday predicted that heavy rain would occur in north Odisha from Sunday under the impact of a fresh low pressure over the northwest Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood on August 13.