Share:At least 17 wedding party members were killed on Wednesday by a massive lightning strike in Bangladesh's Chapainawabganj district, some 302 km northwest of capital Dhaka, a senior official said. Sakib Al Rabbi, head of Chapainawabganj's Shibganj sub-district administration, told Xinhua over mobile phone that "17 people were killed on the spot after lightning struck a wedding party boat." Lightning strikes in the past couple of months reportedly killed scores of people in parts of the country. But the country is experiencing a surge of lightning strike deaths in recent years. Experts here blame the rise in lightning strike deaths directly on climate change that made Bangladesh more vulnerable to the impacts

Source: The Nation August 04, 2021 10:52 UTC