RANGPUR, July 9, 2020 (BSS) – Five people, including four farmers,
were killed in separate incidents of lightning in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat
and Kurigram districts amid inclement weather today, police said.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Tazhat police station of Rangpur
Metropolitan Police Sheikh Rokunuzzaman said two persons were killed
in separate incidents of lightning at different places in ward no-15
of the metropolis.
“The victims were former union parishad member Alhaj Mubarak Ali,
62, of Darshana Bhurarhat Durgapur area and farmer Enamul Haque, 35,
of Akkelpur areas in the ward of the metropolis,” the OC added.
Another farmer Mossarraf Hossain, 38, of village Nagerhat in
Badarganj upazila of Rangpur was killed after lightning hit him while
preparing his cropland for transplantation of Aman rice seedlings this
noon.
In Lalmonirhat, a farmer was killed after lightning hit him while
working in his crop field in village Shoulmari Char of Kaliganj
upazila in the district.
“The victim was Motaleb Hossain, 45, of the same village,” said OC
of Kaliganj police station Arzoo Sajjad Hossain.
In another incident, a farmer was also killed by lightning while
harvesting jute on his crop field in village Uttar Boldia of Kochakata
police station in Nageshwari upazila of Kurigram district.
“The victim was Abdul Awal, 38, of the same village,” OC of
Kochakata police station Md. Mamunur Rashid said.