NEW DELHI – A lightning strike killed at least 11 people and injured many more in the city of Jaipur on Sunday.
The victims were taking selfies in the rain on top of a watch tower at the city’s 12th Century Amer Fort, a popular tourist attraction.
Twenty-seven people were on the tower and the wall of the fort when the incident happened and some reportedly jumped to the ground.
A senior police officer told the media that most of the people among the dead at the fort’s tower were young.
Lightning strikes kill some 2,000 Indians on average every year.(BBC)
