Lightening Strikes: Two people and donkey struck dead

SIALKOT: Two people and a donkey were killed after they were struck by lightening on Friday. According to rescue officials, Mushtaq Muhammad, 50, and his nephew Adnan, 12, were killed along with their donkey when lightening struck them while they were working in the fields in their village in the Dhoda area in the Qila Kalerwala Police Station limits in tehsil Pasrur. According to rescue officials, both victims were busy cutting fodder for their cattle in the fields when lightening struck them. As a result, the two men and the donkey were killed on the spot.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 17^th, 2011.