Lighting strikes kill two people in Mahwit

MAHWIT, July 21 (YPA) – A young man and a child were killed by a lightning strike Mahwit governorate, northwest of the capital Sanaa.

“On Thursday evening, as a result of thunderstorms accompanied by strong winds, Badr Hamoud Muhammad Sufyan, 30, was killed by a lightning strike in the area of Al-Mukhir in Al-Tawilah district,” said Major Adel Essa, the director of the Civil Defense Authority branch in the governorate.

In a similar incident, the 12-year-old child Jamal Hussein Saleh Al-Bars was hit by a lighting strike in the Bani Al-Khayat of the same district, killing him instantly.

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