Bhubaneswar: A Nor’wester storm battered the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack Thursday, toppling iron hoardings at multiple locations and leaving three family members critically injured after a lightning strike.
Three people from the same family were struck by lightning in Niladri Vihar slum area of Bhubaneswar and were shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital.
Strong winds brought down a large iron hoarding structure near the Durga Puja mandap at Old Station Bazaar in Bhubaneswar, damaging a car and a motorcycle parked beneath it. No casualties were reported in the incident. A resident said the structure had been installed about 10 days earlier as a temporary fixture.
In Cuttack, a hoarding at Satichaura Chhak, already in a precarious state, collapsed and came to rest against a coconut tree.
