Dehradun: During the rains in India, lightning struck the goats coming to graze in the forest, as a result of which hundreds of goats were killed there.
According to Indian media, it has been raining intermittently for some days in the state of Uttarakhand, during which there are also reports of hailstorm, which has become a nuisance for the residents there.
The incident in a forest located in Uttarkashi district has been reported to the administration by the villagers, who said that 350 goats were killed by lightning during the torrential rain.
The prolonged hailstorm in Uttarakhand also damaged standing crops, according to media reports, local villagers take their more than a thousand goats from their fields to the hilly areas for grazing as soon as summer begins.
Around 9 o’clock last night, the weather suddenly turned bad. These people were still in the forest due to the rain, when suddenly lightning struck 350 goats and they died on the spot.
Comments
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1763457670639747&version=v2.3”;
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));