Rainstorms kill 10 in Bangladesh

Lightning has killed 10 people and 30 fishermen are missing at sea in rainstorms that have flattened nearly 100 mud-and-thatch houses in southern Bangladesh.

Since the storms hit on Sunday, lightning has killed five young men who went to their fields to bring cattle back home in the Patuakhali district, 95 miles south of the capital, Dhaka.

Five more people were killed by lightning in the southwestern Satkhira district.

Twelve fishing trawlers were caught in the storms and sank in the Bay of Bengal off the Kuakata coast.

Ten of the 40 crew aboard the trawlers were rescued. The others are still missing.

At least 50 people were injured in northern and western Bangladesh in the storms.