Kanchanpur: Two persons from Punarbas Municipality of Kanchanpur district died in a lightning strike on Tuesday morning.
The deceased are Devendra Shrestha, 40, from town bazaar of Punarbas Municipality-6 and Sharada Thapa, 25, from Punarbas Municipality-8, said Police Inspector Ramesh Raj Malla from Area Police Office, Tribhuvan Basti.
The lightning occurred when Shrestha was working in a rice field, which claimed his life on the spot. The dead bodies have been taken to Seti Provincial Hospital for postmortem.
Another person together with Thapa also received a minor injury. Details on the incident are awaited, the police added.
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