2 killed in lightning strike in Nilphamari

Jago News Desk Published: 9 May 2018, 04:24 PM | Updated: 9 May 2018, 04:28 PM
2 killed in lightning strike in Nilphamari

Two people were killed when lightning struck them at Dimla upazila of the district Wednesday morning, reports BSS.

Police said the lightning followed by a rainstorm hit housewife Asma Begum, 50, a resident of Balagram-Shalongram of the upazila, when she was in the yard of her house. She died on the spot.

Farmer Nur Amin, 45, resident of Kathali-Uttar Desibai village, died on the spot by lightning when he was working at a paddy field, said Sohrab Hossain, chairman of Kathali union parishad.