Three persons were killed and three others injured in incidents of lightning in Beed district, even as hail storm wreaked havoc in parts of Marathwada and Western Maharashtra regions in the State. The district of latur, Osmanabad, Beed Parbhani and Nanded in Marathwada region reeled under heavy unseasonal rains and hail storm. As a consequence, fruit crops like Mango, grapes and standing crops like wheat, jowar and vegetables were destroyed in the hail storm and unseasonal rains. Similarly, farmers in places like Pandhapur and Solapur in western Maharashtra suffered huge crop losses due to heavy unseasonal rains and hail storm that lashed their areas since late Tuesday night.