Yemen Monitor/Newsroom
At least five people have been killed and several others injured after lightning strikes caused by heavy rains struck several northern Yemeni provinces, local sources said.
A local source in Amran province said that a young man named Bashar Ali Saleh Zaid Shaqri died from a lightning strike yesterday, Tuesday.
In Al-Mahweet province, activists reported the death of a mother and her daughter after a severe lightning strike hit their house in the village of Beit Al-Radhi in Al-Mahweet Mountain.
They said that the lightning struck the family’s house at around 5 pm, while the mother, 25, and her daughter, 1.5 years old, were in one of the rooms of the house.
In Sana’a, lightning strikes killed two people in Al-Tarf area in Sa’fan Directorate, while they were in one of the guard rooms.
