2 women die in lightning strike in J-K's Poonch

Press Trust of India  |  Jammu 

Two women were killed and another two were injured when lightning struck them a high-altitude area in and Kashmir's district, police said on Friday.

Lightning struck a grass house (doke) in a high-altitude pastureland at Adhie in Mandhi tehsil on Thursday evening, they said.

In the incident, two women, and Tanvi Bano, died and two others were injured, police said.

The bodies have been handed over to the family after post-mortem.

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First Published: Fri, October 05 2018. 13:55 IST