Two people were killed by a lighting strike they were exposed to in a house in Aflah Al-Yaman district in Hajjah province, northern Yemen, on Wednesday.
An official at the Civil Defense Authority stated that due to heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms on Wednesday afternoon , the citizens Ghaleb Ali Ghaleb Haydan, 40 years old, and Majid Muhammad Hadi Haidar, 37 years old, were hit by a thunderbolt and died immediately.
The Civil Defense Authority renewed its call to citizens to abide by the instructions related to sheltering from thunderbolts, turning off electrical appliances and mobile phones, and not taking shelter in abandoned homes, in order to preserve their lives.
