Two people died in separate lightning and drowning incidents in the Dhumghat area of Ishwaripur Union, Shyamnagar upazila in Satkhira on Monday. Around 1pm, Khairunnesa, 40, a homemaker from Moterchar village, was killed by lightning while working in a field beside her home. She was the wife of Abdul Aziz Gazi.

Relatives of the victim and local Union Parishad member Md Abul Kalam said Khairunnesa died at the scene after lightning struck while she was working in the field. Earlier that day, at around 10am, farmer Krishnapada Baidya, 50, died after drowning in a pond in Shiltala village of the same Dhumghat area. He was the son of the late Narayan Baidya.

Family members said Krishnapada Baidya accidentally fell into a roadside pond while heading to the fields for farming work. After he could not be found for a long time, relatives began searching and later recovered his body from the pond. Shyamnagar police station officer-in-charge Md Shafiul Alam Patowary said police were looking into the drowning death, alongside confirming the lightning fatality.