A young man along with 14 cows died in a lightning strike at Ishwardi upazila in Pabna district on Tuesday evening.
The dead was Sajib Hossain, 25, son of Alhaj Pramanik, a resident of Kamalpur village of the upazila.
Locals said Sajib was returning home from Kamalpur Char of Padma in the evening along with 41 cows. A lightning struck on him, and he died on the spot along with 14 cows.
Ishwardi Police Station officer-in-charge Arbinda Sarkar confirmed the matter.
First responders were called to the Laguna Park area at about 5 p.m. Monday, May 15, FOX44 reported.
Upon arrival, deputies found an unresponsive man and child, according to a news release from the Bosque County Sheriff's Office.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said, and the child was rushed to a hospital for emergency care. The child was breathing on their own.
The United Nations reports that continued flooding in Ethiopia has caused widespread destruction and displacement in the regions of Somali, Oromia, SNNP (Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples'), South West and Afar. Over 90 fatalities have lost their lives.
In early April this year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) reported flooding and heavy rain affected or displaced around 240,000 people in Somali, Oromia and Afar regions from mid-March, with 29 fatalities reported. Flooding has worsened since then, causing significant damage and displacements. According to the latest UN report, around 190,000 households have been affected by flooding across the country, with over 200,000 people forced to leave their homes.
The flooding has deepened the vulnerability of populations whose resilience is already highly affected by the impact of a prolonged drought since 2020 as the areas most affected by flooding and drought overlap, UN OCHA said.
Currently, there is an extraordinary hydrological situation in the area of the Una and Sana river basins, as was forecast in the Notification on the forecast of an extraordinary hydrological situation from May 12.
The levels for the start of notification have been reached at all hydrological stations that are defined by the Federal Operational Plan for Flood Protection, the Agency for the Sava River Water Area announced.
During the day, new precipitation is expected in the area of the Una-Sana Canton. However, according to the results of simulations of prognostic systems, the water level is expected to stagnate during the day and decrease in the evening in the upper and middle parts of the Una basin.
Rescue teams and hundreds of soldiers were deployed on Monday to help people in parts of Croatia hit by floods.
Heavy rain in recent days caused some rivers to overflow their banks, flooding homes, roads and public buildings in some towns.
Classes in the town of Obrovac were cancelled after water got into the schools there.
Parts of the town were left without electricity, and water covered the centre of Obrovac. In nearby Gracac, about a dozen people had to move to upper floors or evacuate their homes to avoid surging water.
A Foxton woman got a surprise with her morning coffee when two waterspouts started forming over the ocean near her home.
Katrina Fleming and her six-year-old daughter Karuna were home in Foxton this morning when the unique weather system began forming over the sea.
"I was just making coffee in the kitchen and I looked up and I could see them starting to come up...one kept disappearing and coming back but the second one just got stronger," she told the Herald.
Her daughter Karuna said it was the first water spout she had ever seen - and it was "pretty cool, but also quite freaky".
First responders look through rubble after a tornado touched down in Laguna Heights, Texas, on May 13, 2023.
A tornado with wind speeds up to 110 mph tore through Laguna Heights, Texas, killing at least one person and injuring 10 others. NBC News' Catie Beck has the details.
The heavy downpour in Nelson Mandela Bay has caused flooding in parts of the city, forcing the municipality to relocate some residents and close roads as a precautionary measure.
Though some residents affected by the floods are refusing to be moved to safer areas, the city said it remained on high alert.
Safety and security political head councillor Lawrence Troon said the municipality would continue to monitor the situation.
Comment: Elsewhere in the state flash flooding hit Yorktown: