Dhaka - At least 11 people were killed and scores injured in Bangladesh as the season's first northwester swept many parts of the country Saturday, officials said. Most of the casualties were caused by the collapse of their thatched houses, and lightning. The storm damaged crops on a vast tract of land in the north and central part of the country.
Five people died in villages of centre-northern Jamalpur district while four died in Mymenshingh and two in eastern Comilla districts.
"The rescuers retrieved five bodies from remote villages of Melandaha and Madarganj sub-districts. Two of them died as lightning struck them while three others were killed due to collapse of their houses on them," Kamal Krishna Bhattacharyya, the district administrator at Jamalpur, told the German Press Agency
