At least six persons were killed and seven others seriously injured in lightning on Friday at different places in the State.
While two were killed and four seriously injured in a lightning at Sinapalli in Nuapada district, another person was killed and three others were injured at Pampur in the same district.lightning claimed the lives of a couple at Nalagoja in the Rasgobindapur area of Mayurbhanj district and another person at Bakkaguda in the Sindhekela area in Titilagarh subdivision of Balangir district.
In Mayurbhanj district, lightning had killed eight people in last four days due to extremely bad weather.