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At least 50 people are reported to have died amid heavy thunder and lightning that battered parts of northern India on Tuesday, officials said. Fifteen people have been killed in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and at least 12 have died in the eastern state of Jharkhand, officials told BBC Hindi. In Arkansas, nine people were injured during wicked weather, including two injured in a lightning strike in Rogers.
At least 50 people are reported to have died amid heavy thunder and lightning storms in northern India.