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.
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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.