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Lightning strikes a worker in Chandrapur, Maharashtra: The worker was the victim of a horrific accident while walking through a coal mine.
A worker was killed by lightning while working in a coal mine in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra. The CCTV camera captured the scene of a lightning strike on a worker. The deceased was working at Western Coalfield Limited's Majri coal mine in Bhadravati Taluka when the accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Babu Dhankumar Yadav (aged 36), a resident of Narayanpur in the Bhojpur district of Bihar. He was an overburden transporter in the area of the Naglon mine in the Majri district of Waikoli.
On Tuesday afternoon, around 2:30 p.m., he was driving through the Naglon Mine. At the same time, he was struck by lightning, due to which he died on the spot. The police filed a case and sent the body for an autopsy.