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Lightning strikes kill at least 14 people in Bangladesh during seasonal storms
Officials said farmers, laborers and a child were among the victims as seasonal thunderstorms and unstable pre-monsoon weather drove deadly lightning strikes.
- On Monday, lightning strikes killed at least 14 people across Bangladesh as seasonal thunderstorms swept several districts, bringing heavy rain and intense lightning.
- Lightning-Related fatalities are common during pre-monsoon months of April to June, prompting Bangladesh to declare lightning strikes a natural disaster in 2016 after more than 200 deaths in May alone.
- Most victims were farmers and laborers working in exposed areas, including a 10-year-old boy and a 22-year-old tea worker married only eight days, according to Bangladeshi daily Prothom Alo.
- Authorities classified the deaths as unnatural cases, while several others were injured and hospitalized in critical condition; lightning also killed a nearby cow.
- Experts link rising fatal strikes to deforestation and higher atmospheric temperatures generating electrical charges, while researchers at Fakir Mohan University in Odisha, India, documented over 101,000 lightning deaths between 1967 and 2020.
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Thunderstorms have battered several areas of Bangladesh following a prolonged heatwave, resulting in at least 14 deaths and numerous injuries from lightning strikes.
Lightning strikes kill 14 as Bangladesh lashed by seasonal storms
DHAKA, April 27 (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed after lightning strikes hit several parts of Bangladesh, officials said on Monday, as seasonal thunderstorms swept across the country. The deaths were reported from several districts after su...
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