DHAKA, May 8: At least five children were killed by lightning while playing cricket on a school pitch near the northern Bangladesh town of Gafargaon, police said on Monday. The children, aged nine and 10, died on the spot as lightning struck the pitch at Makhal Kaldhair village, some 100 kilometres from Dhaka, local police chief Abdur Rashid Shikder said.
“Among the dead were two brothers. Other kids who were playing the cricket match late on Sunday afternoon were unhurt but were very shocked to see their friends dead,” he said. Lightning kills dozens of people in rural Bangladesh during the early summer and monsoon periods.—AFP
