Lightning bang kills minor boy

Lightning strike
Lightning strike

A one-year old boy was killed after being hit by a bang caused by thunderbolt in Baluigasa village of Satkhira's Sadar upazila on Saturday.

The deceased was Bilal Hossain, son of Md Ibrahim Hossain Khokon of the village.

Officer-in-charge of Sadar police station Maruf Ahmed said that the child died on the way to a nearby hospital after he had fallen sick hearing the sound of the lightning strike.