COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh – A bolt of lightning struck a tea shop killing at least six villagers in southern Bangladesh on Saturday, a hospital doctor said.
Three men died on the spot when lightning hit the straw-and-tin tea stall in Cox’s Bazar, about 295 kilometres south of Dhaka.
Three others died on the way to hospital, hospital official, Dr. Monir Ahmed Chowdhury, said.