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SRINAGAR:Two persons were killed due to lightning in separate incidents in Bandipora and Ganderbal districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday.

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Srinagar, June 17

Two persons were killed due to lightning in separate incidents in Bandipora and Ganderbal districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday.

  Fatima Bano (18), a resident of Najan village in the Sumbal area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora, died when she was struck by lightning outside her house, an official said.

Mohammad Yousuf Mir, a resident of the Bakura area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal, was struck by lightning while he was working in his field, an official said, adding that he died on the spot. — PTI 

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