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

Talk true

Yea! It's true, just google it.

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.

@antivirus u just show hw reasonable u can be.

Allah rest their souls

Ameen.

A dark day in Ramadan

No matter how much i dislyk muslim,i cant wish them death.

So unfortunate

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 11
Northern nigeria will be the next turn! Evil people!

I 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 11
Yes, this is just the begining........ The God that answers by lightning, thunder and fire, visit the enemies of this country IJN, Amen.

j 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 11
Shango Vs Allah


Or it it Indra vs Allah

when 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 11
@antivirus

Human life is sacred! No matter how evil or bad those people are.. They are still human

i just hope and pray their allah in kabaar will grant them alljanah with 72virgins and po0l of beer they always wanted (if there are though)

to 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 12

Pastor AIO: Shango Vs Allah


Or it it Indra vs Allah


True Talk.

Indra/Shango win! grin

Never 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.

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.

The religion of love and turning the other cheek assailing innocents
Alhamdu li Llah that I am a muslim
Laa illaha Ila Allah