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Man hurled 50 feet into air as India storms kill 111

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A 50-year-old e-rickshaw driver was lifted nearly 50 feet into the air and flung across a field by violent storm winds in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district, in a dramatic incident that captured the force of the deadly weather system that has killed at least 111 people across the state. Mohammed Nanhe, a resident of Bamiana village, was trying to stop a tin shed at a wedding hall from being blown away on Wednesday evening when a powerful gust tore it loose and carried him with it. A video of the incident, recorded from a nearby rooftop, showed him rising with the sheet metal before being thrown across the area and landing in a sugarcane field, The Times of India reported. Nanhe suffered fractures in his hand and leg but survived what villagers described as a near-miraculous escape. “When I was in the air, I thought I would never see my children again,” he said. Storm turns routine moment into viral spectacle Nanhe had gone to the wedding hall to collect some goods when the weather suddenly worsened.…

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