Heavy rain, lightning kills eight people in Jharkhand

At least eight people were killed including one in Ranchi due to heavy rain and lightning strikes in Jharkhand in the last 24 hours, an official said on October 2.

Parts of Jharkhand have been receiving incessant rains since Saturday evening, which damaged several culverts, diversions, and also claimed several lives.

A 28-year-old man fell in an overflowing drain in Hatma Saraitand in Ranchi's Lalpur area on Sunday. The body of the person, identified as Dev Prasad alias Chotu, was recovered around 2.5-km away from the place of occurrence on Monday morning.