- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
Lightning strikes have killed an unprecedented 59 people in Bangladesh in three days as tropical thunderstorms hit the country before the annual monsoon, an official said on Sunday. Thirty-four people were killed on Thursday in different locations and another 25 over the next two days around the country, said disaster management department chief Reaz Ahmed. “We’ve not seen such a huge number of deaths due to lightning before,” Ahmed said, adding most of the victims were farmers struck while working in their rice paddy fields. Lightning in the course of tropical storms usually strikes Bangladesh during the pre-monsoon and the…
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