A 35-year-old man was killed by a lightning strike while fishing with a fishing rod in Ghatail upazila of Tangail on Thursday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, a resident of Phulbaria upazila in neighbouring Mymensingh district.
The incident occurred at Atarochura Beel in the Mominpur area of Rasulpur Union in Ghatail around Thursday afternoon, October 8.
According to local residents and Union Parishad member Roshonara Begum, a group of five to seven young men from Phulbaria regularly came to the border-area beel to fish. On Thursday afternoon, Saiful was struck by lightning amid rain and died at the scene. Later, his family members arrived and took his body home.
Ghatail Police Station Officer-in-Charge Moksedur Rahman confirmed receiving information about the death caused by lightning.