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13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by Nobody: 8:22pm On Aug 11, 2012 |
DHAKA (AFP) – At least 13 Muslim worshippers were killed and 15 hurt when lightning struck a mosque in a remote village in northeast Bangladesh as they held special Ramadan prayers, police said on Saturday. The imam was among those instantly killed when a lightning bolt hit the tin-and-thatch building at Saraswatipur village, about 200 kilometres (125 miles)from the capital Dhaka, late on Friday. The lightning appeared to “electrify” the mosque after hitting a rooftop microphone being run on power from a car battery, local council member Abul Kalam told AFP by telephone. About 35 people from the village in the lake district of Sunamganj were holding prayers known as taraweeh — offered during the holy fasting month of Ramadan — at the time, police chief Bayes Alam said. “All 13, including the imam, died on the spot. The bodies and faces of some of the victims wereburnt,” Alam told AFP, adding six of the injured were hospitalised. Locals had turned the flimsy structure into a mosque because access to the village’s more substantial concrete-roofed mosque had been made difficult due to recent heavy rains that have swollen the Saraswati river. Villagers rushed to help after hearing cries, Kalam said. “It was a terrible scene. Dozens were lying on the floor — some dead, others writhing in pain,” he said, adding most of the victims were young men in their 20s and 3Os. “We took the injured in three boats and headed to hospital in Dharmapasa”, the closest big town, he said. “But it took hours to get there,” he added. Lightning is a major threat in Sunamganj, home to some of Bangladesh’s biggest lakes. Most lightning strikes occur during themonsoon season between June and September when the district receives huge amounts of rainfall. Across the South Asian country, hundreds of people are killed by lightning strikes every year, with most dying while attempting to save rice crops from flooding. Bangladeshi environmentalists blame global warming, which has unleashed a growing number of tropical storms, for the increase in the frequency, devastation and deaths caused by lightning strikes in recent years. In May last year, at least 29 people were killed — most of them farmers who were harvesting rice — and dozens injured when a series of lightning strikes hit several districts in a single day. Source: 247 nigeria news |
Re: 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by Lordave: 8:27pm On Aug 11, 2012 |
Talk true |
Re: 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by Nobody: 9:13pm On Aug 11, 2012 |
Yea! It's true, just google it. |
Re: 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by hadbak: 9:31pm On Aug 11, 2012 |
Whtever befals one wasn't meant 2 miss him n whtever missed sumone wasn't meant 2 befall him. May God grant d death rest. |
Re: 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by mujiboy(m): 10:12pm On Aug 11, 2012 |
@antivirus u just show hw reasonable u can be. |
Re: 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by lacasa: 11:09pm On Aug 11, 2012 |
Allah rest their souls Ameen. A dark day in Ramadan |
Re: 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by tobechi20(m): 11:40pm On Aug 11, 2012 |
No matter how much i dislyk muslim,i cant wish them death. So unfortunate |
Re: 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by Sweetnecta: 2:11am On Aug 13, 2012 |
May Allah forgive those who died in struggle to obey Him. Amin Every soul shall have a taste of death. @antivirus: by Antivirus92(m): 9:11pm On Aug 11I guess the poor bangladeshi people are evil by association of religion with northern nigerians. for sure southern nigerian muslims are evil. so much hate in your veins. @ sijo01; by Sijo01(f): 9:44pm On Aug 11j had nothing to do with this particular incident. if j had any power on lightening, one would have thought he would have used it against his enemies since we realize that he prayed all night so that he was not killed by his enemies. @Pastor AIO by Pastor AIO: 10:00pm On Aug 11when you read chapter titled thunder in the Quran, you will know that nothing is versus Allah because each is subject to His Permission and Power. @amosy007; by amosy007: 10:19pm On Aug 11to assume that they are evil because of dying by lightening will make one wonder if the person hung was not evil, too. to assume that because they are muslims, they were evil, one will ask if all christians are evil evil because there are militant christian groups in and out of nigeria. @Pagan 9ja: PAGAN 9JA(m): 9:49pm On Aug 12Never would there be a competition between the creation and the Creator. Allah ends the lives of these people in the way He wished. Each one of us will die in a way Allah designs it. If you die on your in the comfort of your bed, if you are disbeliever, but the believer who died by lighting will end up in Paradise, InshaAllah and you the disbeliever will not end up in the same place, InshaAllah. you pagan man will say buddha is one of your gods? but when the taliban blew it up in afghanistan, did the taliban win against your god? i am shocked that some christians behaved in a similar manner to the idol worshiper, pagan 9ja, above. some of the best personalities of the christian biblle died no less a tragic death. being hung, burned, fed to lions, or beheaded are some of what we believe ended the lies of many. if the bangladeshi people were evil, what shall we say about the christians who met their ends as i listed above? the reality is that thunder/lightening submit/bow to Allah because it does downward movement. 1 Like |
Re: 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by LagosShia: 10:18am On Aug 13, 2012 |
reminders: Jesus Statue Destroyed by Lightening: https://www.nairaland.com/467910/y-d-statue-jesus-burnt Lightning Kills An Entire Football Team https://www.nairaland.com/866874/lightning-kills-entire-football-team/1 such incidents happen everywhere and can happen anywhere.it is a matter of being at the wrong place and at the wrong time.besides,it is also their time to die that God has decreed for the victims.no soul dies except by Allah's (swt) permission.or who knows,God is punishing them for their wrong doings?if it wasn't lightening,they could have still died sleeping on their beds. 1 Like |
Re: 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque by BetaThings: 10:53am On Aug 14, 2012 |
The religion of love and turning the other cheek assailing innocents Alhamdu li Llah that I am a muslim Laa illaha Ila Allah |
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