{"id":41229,"date":"2024-08-18T15:26:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T15:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/lightning-strikes-in-odisha-claim-six-more-lives-cm-majhi-announces-ex-gratia-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T15:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T15:26:32","slug":"lightning-strikes-in-odisha-claim-six-more-lives-cm-majhi-announces-ex-gratia-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/lightning-strikes-in-odisha-claim-six-more-lives-cm-majhi-announces-ex-gratia-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes in Odisha claim six more lives; CM Majhi announces ex-gratia &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bhubaneswar<\/strong>: At least six people were killed and many injured in separate lightning strike incidents in five different districts of Odisha on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing deep sorrow over the lightning-related deaths in the state, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh (each) for family of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>As per the information received so far, two people have died in Kendrapada, while one death each took place in Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Sonepur districts during the day.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister wished the injured a speedy recovery and said that the state government would bear the expenses for the treatment of the injured persons.<\/p>\n<p>The new casualties occurred a day following the <strong>deaths of nine individuals due to lightning strikes across Odisha<\/strong>. The Chief Minister had announced an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh for each of the deceased\u2019s next of kin.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:\u00a0Odisha to plant 20 lakh palm trees to reduce lightning-related incidents<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bhubaneswar: At least six people were killed and many injured in separate lightning strike incidents in five different districts of Odisha on Sunday. Expressing deep sorrow over the lightning-related deaths in the state, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh (each) for family of the victims. As per the information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1723994789_Lightning-Strikes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41231,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41229\/revisions\/41231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}