Overview
- Officials say lightning strikes left at least 14 dead across Bangladesh, with several others hospitalized.
- Most victims were farmers and day laborers who were caught in open fields during sudden storms.
- Deaths were reported across seven districts, including Gaibandha, Sirajganj, and Thakurgaon.
- The Bangladesh Meteorological Department warned of further thunderstorms, lightning, and squally winds through April 28.
- Bangladesh records hundreds of lightning deaths each year, and it designated lightning a natural disaster in 2016 after a deadly month.