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Climate change 'fueling deadly India lightning strikes'

[서울=아시아뉴스통신] 레악카나기자 송고시간 2020-07-07 06:00

Around 215 people - farmers, rural labourers and cattle graziers - have now died from strikes in the country's poorest state. (Photo by= AFP/Rakesh Bakshi


[아시아뉴스통신=레악카나 기자] Lightning strikes killed 147 people in the north Indian state of Bihar over the last 10 days, officials said on Sunday (Jun 5), warning of more extreme weather conditions to come, driven by climate change. "I was informed by weather experts, scientists and officials that rising temperatures due to climate change is the main cause behind the increasing lightning strikes," Bihar's Disaster Management Minister Lakshmeshwar Rai told AFP.

The Indian Meteorological Department has warned of more lightning in the next 48 hours. Lightning strikes during the annual monsoon that runs from June to September are fairly common in India. But officials said this year's toll in Bihar has already surpassed the total number of deaths recorded annually for the state over the past few years, even though the monsoon season has just started.

Bihar agrometeorologist Abdus Sattar told AFP the lightning and thunder was caused by large-scale instability in the atmosphere, fuelled by temperature rises and excessive moisture. State authorities rolled out a mobile phone app they said helps predict possible lightning strikes.

But many poor farmers do not own smartphones. The monsoon is crucial to replenishing water supplies in South Asia, but also causes widespread death and destruction across the region each year.
 
 

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