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Seven people were killed in a storm that raged across Jharkhand early this morning uprooting electricity poles and hundreds of trees.
Police said a man, his two daughters and a son were crushed to death. when the tree under which they were sleeping. fell on them at Kona village in Chatra district.
In the second incident, three members of a family were killed in lightning at Baghtand in Dhanbad district, Dhanbad police said.
The storm hit around 4.30 a.m. and according to reports, a large number of electricity poles and hundreds of trees were uprooted in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh, Latehar and some other districts.
Damage to property is being assessed, official sources said.
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