A series of lightning strikes in the United Warangal district killed five people over the past three days. On Sunday evening, a farmer and a minor girl were killed by lightning while plucking cotton in the fields of Venkatapur village, located in the Inavolu mandal. The farmer, identified as 25-year-old Kukatla Raju, and a 17-year-old girl, who was helping her parents in the fields, died instantly when the weather suddenly changed and lightning struck.
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