Six people were killed by lightning while fishing in a beel at Malanchi in Pabna, and several others were injured. Pabna Sadar police station’s officer-in-charge, Tarikul Islam, confirmed the deaths.
It happened on Friday (October 30) afternoon at Sonapati beel, near the bridge in the Gobindapur area of Malanchi union in Sadar upazila.
Kabir Hossain Babu, chairman of the Malanchi union parishad, said: “When lightning began with the rain, several people took shelter in a polythene shed. Lightning struck the shed and six people died. The dead are teenagers and young men.”
“Six died on the spot. Three injured people were rescued and sent to hospital,” he said. The identities of the dead and injured could not be learned immediately.
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