DHAKA : Six people were killed, including two children and a woman, in lightning strikes in three districts Monday as inclement weather persists over the country amid rain coupled with gales of wind.

The districts that came under the fatal cloudbursts are Chapainawabganj, Satkhira and Naogaon.

Bholahat upazila Nirbahi officer Golam Azam of Chapainawabganj district said that  a boy named Ashish Roy, 9, son of Kartik Roy of the village Jambaria, died instantly as a thunderbolt struck him at noon.
 
Nezampur union parishad chairman Aminul Islam of the same district said Shamim, a boy of three of the village Jorgachi under Nachol upazila, was killed in lighning also at noontime. « Tthe boy was sleeping at home when the lightning struck him, killing him on the spot. »

In Satkhira, two farmers died and another was wounded as thunder bolt hit them while working in their farmlands. The victims are Mozammel Hossain, 28, of the village Par Machkhola village and Shafiqul Islam, 40, son of Sadek Munshi of Itagacha area of the district town.

Witnesses said Mozammel Hossain died at about 10 am as lightning hit him. His younger brother Abdul Alim was seriously wounded. Their two cattle used for plouging also died in the nature’s fury.   Shafiqual Islam died while he was collecting  grass from Bakal field.

Another two people died in  separate lighnings in Manda upazila of Naogaon district on Monday morning. They are Mollika,30, and Kamruzzaman, 28.

Mollika was hit by lightning while she was taking her cattle out from the cattleshed and died on the spot. She is from Chakpabon village and wife of  Naser Ali.

Kamruzzaman, son of Iman Ali of north Kalikapur village of the same upazila, was struck by lightning while working in his paddy.

BDST/1715, June 28, 2010-06-28
Corrp/BK/MMK/EH/MUA