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Lightning strike killed a schoolgirl and injured her mother and sister in Boda upazila in Panchagarh district on Friday afternoon.

The deceased has been identified as Tanya Akhter, 15, daughter of Salekul Islam of Gomostapara village and a student of class ten of nearby Chandanbari High School. Police, hospital and local sources said, thunderbolt stuck a kitchen of Salekul Islam's house around 1pm when Tanya, her sister Sabina Yasmin, 30, and mother Lailey Begum, 50, were engaged in cooking food.

All of them were injured in the incident and taken to Boda Upazila Health Complex where attending Medical Officer Dr M R Reza declared Tanya dead. Tanya's mother Lailey Begum and her sister Sabina Yasmin have been undergoing treatment at the Health Complex, according to a news agency.