Bangladesh, May 14, 2016 – At least 50 people have been killed in Bangladesh, following an onslaught of lightening. According to reports monitored in the international media , most of those killed were farmers working on their paddy field, the Bangladesh police is reported to have said.
Two students reported to be among the dead, where killed in Dhaka on a local football pitch while they were playing football, while a teenage boy was also reported to have died in a mango plantation where he went to pluck mangoes.
Bangladesh is reported to be prone to storm but the country suffered severe thunder storms and lightening this year.
The Voice of America reported that 90 people were killed by thunder storm and lightening in March early this year and that the figure of those killed by this natural force has exceeded the 51 reported in 2015.
Head of Bangladesh’s disaster management agency, Mohammad Riaz Ahmed was quoted by the VOA that he was “indeed concerned” by the rise in the number of deaths arising from lightening.
