- Experts have warned that climate change was increasing in electricity attacks in India.
- Growing global temperature exposed the cascade of extreme weather events: scientists
- The office of the Meteorological Department of India predicted heavy rains in Bihar on Saturday.
Patna: At least 69 people were killed this week in the state of Bihar in eastern India and in neighboring Nepal.
While flash floods and electricity kill thousands of people every year, scientists have warned that rising global temperatures are highlighting a waterfall of extreme weather events.
Bihar disaster officials said on Saturday that at least 61 people were killed in strong thunder and electric storms on Thursday and Friday.
Eight more people were killed in neighboring Nepal, disaster officials told AFPBlazing the “Lightning Strike” on Wednesday and Thursday.
According to the office of the local India Meteorological Department, there is heavy rains to re -hit Bihar on Saturday.
Last year, experts warned that climate change was promoting a dangerous increase in fatal electrical attacks in India, killing about 1,900 people in a year in the world’s most populous country.
A team of researchers led by Fakir Mohan University in the eastern state of Odisha said that between 2010 and 2020, 101,309 people of electricity were killed between 1967 and 2020.
