Eight persons sustained injury after being struck by lightning during rain in the Kharkhil village in Kandarsyun Patti of Pauri district on Sunday evening.
The lightening struck seven women and one man near the temple of Kharkhil village. Seven of them were admitted to the Pauri district hospital while one has been admitted to the Chaubattakhal hospital.
According to information from the district disaster control room, the eight persons struck by lightening have been identified as 40-year old Faguni Devi, Rubbi Devi (42 years), Pramella Devi (29 years), Meena (23 years), Kalawati (24 years),
Urmilla Devi (43 years), Gangotri Devi (30 years) and Balbir Singh. All of them are residents of the Kharkhil village.
While Gangotri Devi was taken to the Chaubattakhal hospital, the other injured villagers were sent to the district hospital.
It is pertinent to mention here that natural calamities have been reported from different parts of the State this year during the monsoon season.
About a week ago in the Pauri district, heavy rainfall and flash flood took a toll of seven human lives lost when a double-storeyed building they were residing in collapsed in the Merkhola village of Paubo block in the district.
A couple of days later, one woman was reported to have been swept away in a torrent of rainwater with a number of domesticated animals also being reported to have died in the village where five residential buildings were also damaged by heavy rainfall..