Lightning kills six labourers

Six labourers, including five women, were killed today when lightning struck them in Sori village in Bihar's Aurangabad district, police sources said.

The six labourers were planting paddy saplings in a farmland when lightning struck them. All of them died on the spot, the sources said.

The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, they said, adding that efforts were on to ascertain the identity of the victims.