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Q: Lightning strikes have killed 56 people over the past two days, triggering a panic among some people, Bangladesh authorities said Saturday. 
  
 After a nearly weeklong heat wave scorched Bangladesh, thunderstorms hit the country’s 14 districts Thursday. The storm produced lightning strikes that killed at least 33 people. Another series of lightning strikes Friday killed at least 23 other people. 
  
 The lightning strikes also injured scores of other people in the past two days. 
  
 Most of the people who died or were injured across the country were working in farmlands or were in open spaces when they were struck, police said. 
  
 Seasonal weather 
  
 Deaths caused by lightning strike often occur during the premonsoon season -- usually between March and May -- and often in rural areas where people work outdoors. 
  
 Pabna police officer Abul Hossain told VOA that eight people in Pabna district alone were killed by lightning strikes, adding that the number of people killed in such a short time "has left many people panicking." 
  
 Last year, 51 people were killed by lightning. 
  
 But there have already been 90 deaths -- including the 56 killed in the past two days -- caused by lightning since March this year. 
  
 Mohammad Riaz Ahmed, who heads Bangladesh's disaster management department, said the authorities were concerned with the unusual number of deaths so far this year. 
  
 Ahmed said Friday that lightning strikes peak in May in Bangladesh. With more thunderstorms predicted by the end of the month, "we are indeed concerned,” he added. 
  
 Some experts also noted that a change in climate temperature might have triggered an increase in the frequency of lightning strikes in Bangladesh. 
  
 "As we have recorded, the lightning frequency has been increasing gradually since 1981, due to climate variability and increase in temperature. The temperature in the country marked a significant rise this year, which is apparently the cause behind the increased incidents of lightning," said M. Abdul Mannan, a meteorology department official in Dhaka. 
  
 Factors 
  
 Gawher Nayeem Wahr, member-secretary of the Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Forum, said the decreasing number of tall trees has a role in the increase in number of people being injured or killed by lightning strikes. 
  
 “Palm and other taller trees usually attract the lightning flashes. But with these trees becoming scarce in rural areas" people are more prone to be hit, Wahr said. 
  
 Ahmed, of the country's disaster management department, said the high number of deaths has forced the country to consider the event a natural disaster. 
  
 “We will make all efforts, consulting our scientists and other disaster management experts so that lightning strikes cannot be a that big threat in Bangladesh," he said. ||||| U.S. Lightning Deaths in 2018: 2 
  
 No. Date Day ST City Age Sex Location Activity Victim 1 2/6 Tue TX Honey Island 22 M Outside Repairing fencing Sebastian Ramos 2 4/7 Sat FL White Springs 23 F Standing near tree under gooseneck of trailer Mud bogging Kourtney Lambert Lightning Fatalities 2018 by State 2018 Lightning Fatality Demographics State Gender Age* Day Of Week* By Month FL 1 F 1 (50%) 0-9 0 (0%) Sun 0 (0%) 2018 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 10 Yr Avg TX 1 M 1 (50%) 10-19 0 (0%) Mon 0 (0%) Jan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20-29 2 (100%) Tue 1 (50%) Feb 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 30-39 0 (0%) Wed 0 (0%) Mar 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 40-49 0 (0%) Thu 0 (0%) Apr 1** 0 3 2 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 50-59 0 (0%) Fri 0 (0%) May 2 1 4 5 5 0 1 4 2 2 3 60-69 0 (0%) Sat 1 (50%) Jun 1 4 11 3 2 3 5 7 12 9 7 70-79 0 (0%) Jul 8 12 5 9 6 13 9 11 10 14 10 80-89 0 (0%) Aug 3 13 4 5 4 6 6 4 3 0 5 Sep 2 3 1 3 5 2 4 2 4 1 3 Oct 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 Nov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dec 1 0 0 0 0 0 Year 2** 16 39 27 26 23 28 26 29 34 28 28* * *Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100 percent. ** Known Fatalities to date Note: Monthly averages are based on a 10-year average from 2007 to 2016. Due to rounding, the sum of the monthly averages may not equal the yearly average. 
  
  
  
  
  
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More than 60 people have been killed by lightning over the past two days during tropical storms across Bangladesh, local media said Saturday. Most of the 64 lightning deaths since Thursday have occurred in the countryside, where farmers are busy with the current harvesting season, Bengali-language newspapers Prothom Alo and Samakal reported, per the AP. Experts say increased deforestation, increased use of metal equipment like cellphones, and rising temperatures have contributed to a surge in lightning deaths that has caused panic in some areas. Most of the victims were farmer working in their fields, though children playing in the open and spectators at a soccer game have also died in lightning strikes. Mohammad Riaz Ahmed, chief of Bangladesh's disaster management department, tells Voice of America that authorities are "very concerned" by the number of lightning deaths. More than 90 have died so far this year and the storm season hasn't peaked yet. In the US, there were 27 recorded lightning deaths in 2015 and there have been five so far this year, according to the NOAA. (NASA has named a new lightning capital of the world.)