{"id":431863,"date":"2026-06-28T22:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=431863"},"modified":"2026-06-28T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:24:19","slug":"woman-killed-in-lightning-strike-in-sankhuwasabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/06\/28\/431863.html","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in lightning strike in Sankhuwasabha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kimathanka (Sankhuwasabha): <\/strong>A woman died after being hit by a lightning strike on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Lightning-1024x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-406900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Lightning-1024x401.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Lightning-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Lightning-768x301.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Lightning-1536x602.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Lightning-2048x802.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kumari Rai, 39, of Chirkhang of Makalu rural municipality-1 in Sankhuwasabha district, sustained critical injuries in the lightning strike and died while being taken to the Primary Health Centre in Num, according to the District Police Office (DPO), Sankhuwasabha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dhan Bahadur Rajbanshi, Information Officer at the DPO, shared that the incident occurred while Rai was switching off the electricity metre box at her house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said that the dead body has been taken to the District Hospital, Sankhuwasabha and will be handed over to the family following a post-mortem examination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhan Bahadur Rajbanshi, Information Officer at the DPO, shared that the incident occurred while Rai was switching off the electricity metre box at her house. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":406900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-431863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431864,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431863\/revisions\/431864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431863"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=431863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}