Lightning kills housewife

A housewife was killed and another injured by a lightning strike at Beergor village in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon on Friday morning, reports UNB.  

The deceased was Nilufar Begum, 25, wife of Murtuza of the village.

Quoting family members, Amiruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Haripur police station, said the thunderbolt struck them while they were grazing cattle around 11:30am, leaving Nilufar dead on spot.

On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital for autopsy, the OC added.