Lightning strike kills 6 in Pabna

PABNA, Oct 30: Six people were killed and three others injured in a lightning strike at a wetland in Pabna Sadar Upazila on Friday afternoon.

The incident occurred at Sonapati wetland in Malanchi Union, where several people had taken shelter from the rain in a makeshift structure covered with polythene during a storm.

Local Union Parishad Chairman Kabir Hossain Babu said lightning struck the structure, killing six people on the spot. Some of the victims were young, he added.

The three injured people were rescued and taken to hospital, the chairman said.