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.

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.

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