According to reports, lightning struck Josen Majhi and Kuanra Soren when both of them among others villagers had taken one of their fellow villager's body to the shamshan ghat (cremation ground) to cremate his mortal remains.
Hearing the news, the local police rushed to the spot and took the bodies of Majhi and Soren to Betnoti Community Health Centre (CHC) for postmortem.
Following the tragic incident, the grief-striken villagers demanded compensation for the family members of the deceased persons.
Comment: Elsewhere in Asia recently an elderly man and a woman were killed by separate strikes in Nepal and a boy was fatally hit in Bangladesh.
Over in Africa a single bolt killed 3 people and 3 dogs on the 12th April in Zimbabwe.