Ten people were killed and five others injured in lightning strikes in Habiganj, Pirojpur, Chapainwabganj and Laxmipur districts on Wednesday.
According to reports reaching the UNB news desk, four people were killed and two others injured by lightning strike at Birat Haor in Ajmirganj upazila of Habiganj district in the morning. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.
Police said, a thunderbolt struck the six people while they were fishing in the haor from a boat amid rain
around 9 am, leaving all of them injured. They were taken to upazila health complex where doctors declared four of them dead.
In Chapainawabganj, three farmers died and three others injured as lightning hit them while working in a field at Singaril in Nachole around 1 pm.
The deceased were identified as Masud Rana, 16, son of Amin Ali, of Singaril area in Nachole upazila, Tariqul, 45, son of Habibur Rahman of Sarjan area of Sadar upazila, and Abdur Rahim, 42, son of Farid Uddin alias Fakiruddin of Shibnagar village in Gomastapur upazila.
The injured farmers-Swapon, Zillur and Razzak-were admitted to Nachole Upazila Health Complex. In Pirojpur, two people-Asim, 35, son of Odhir Ranjan, and Rajib, 32, son of Shamir Mitra, of Kadamtala villge in Sadar upazila — sustained injuries after being struck by a thunderbolt at Gensa Bazar in the upazila around 3pm.
They were taken to Sadar hospital where doctors declared them dead. In Laxmipur, a streak of lightning hit Qamrul Islam, 12, a class III student of Matirhat Government Primary School and son of Amzad Hossain of Matirhat, at Charkalni in Kamalnagar upazila around 2pm while going out of his house, leaving him dead on the spot.
