Dhaka, March 28 -- Two farmers have died and four others injured in separate lightning strikes in Shailkupa Upazila of Jhenaidah.

The thunderbolts were reported in the neighbouring villages of Kharibaria and Lakshmipur of Umedpur Union on Saturday afternoon, said Shailkupa Police Station chief Md Humayun Kabir.

The dead were identified as Apu Biswas, 22, of Lakshmipur village and 40-year-old Samir Biswas of the other village.

Witnesses Bijoy Biswas and Ripon Biswas said that Samir and his father were harvesting onions from a field while Apu was working along with others in a nearby field.

All of them were critically injured as separate thunderbolts struck them almost simultaneously, the witnesses said.

They were immediately rushed to...