Cyclone Yaas: 5 killed in Bengal due to lightning, electrocution; heavy rain lashes several districts

At least five people were killed in West Bengal on Thursday in separate incidents of a lightning strike and electrocution, an official of the disaster management department said.

At least five people were killed in West Bengal on Thursday in separate incidents of a lightning strike and electrocution, an official of the disaster management department said.Three people - two teenage boys in Murshidabad district's Hariharpara and another person in Nakashipara in Nadia district - died after being struck by lightning, he said. In Purba Medinipur's Nandigram, two young boys were electrocuted to death, the official said. Heavy rain lashed the metropolis and some other districts of West Bengal, a day after cyclone ''Yaas'' wreaked havoc in several places in North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas and the tourist hotspot of Digha, but spared Kolkata of any significant damage.