India's deadly killer: Bihar, MP are worst hit by lightning deaths

On 13 July, CNN, The Washington Post, and a host of other foreign publications noted incredulously that at least 65 people had been killed by lightning strikes and thunderstorms on one day in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh alone. In Rajasthan, 23 died after lightning hit Amer Fort — a popular tourist spot on the outskirts of the city, according to Shankar Lal Saini, a senior disaster management official in Jaipur.

“There was a tower there. When the lightning struck, the tower’s wall collapsed, many people were buried under it. Since the fort is on a hill, when the debris was falling