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A tribal woman was killed after lightning struck a village in Maharashtra's Thane district, the police said on Sunday, according to the PTI.
The 55-year-old victim identified as Anibai Mundola, from Zapwadi in Khinavali area of Shahapur taluka, had taken her buffalo for grazing to a farm on Saturday evening when lightning struck them amid heavy rains, as per the PTI.
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The woman died on the spot and the cattle also perished, an official from Khinavali police station said.
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The woman's charred body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem and the police registered a case of accidental death, he said.
(with PTI inputs)
