Impact of climate change in Bangladesh, 74 killed by lightning
43 people have been killed by lightning in Bangladesh in the early days of May – Photo: Anatolo
Dhaka: In the last 38 days in Bangladesh, 74 civilians, including 35 farmers, were killed by lightning, and experts attributed it to the effects of climate change.
According to the report of Anatolu News Agency, Save the Society and Thunderstorm Awareness Forum said in the report that during the first 8 days of May, 43 people died due to lightning and in April 31 people lost their lives due to lightning.
According to the report, during the early days of this month, 11 people were killed and 9 injured daily due to lightning strikes.
According to statistics, 2,800 people died due to lightning strikes in South Asian countries during the decade until 2021, while Bangladesh is surrounded by the Bay of Bengal and there are frequent incidents of lightning strikes.
Experts say that bloody incidents of lightning are also a sign of climate change.
Kabir Al Bashir, a professor at Jahangirnagar University and president of the forum, said that there are two reasons for lightning strikes, global warming and deforestation in rural areas of Bangladesh, especially tall trees in fields. These reasons include:
Environmentalist Shehrir Hussain said that the main reason for lightning strikes in Bangladesh is climate change.
He said climate change has led to untimely rains, extreme heat and delayed rains, lightning strikes occur when the temperature on the ground is higher than the atmosphere and air.
He said that deforestation and cutting down of tall trees like palm trees creates climate crisis and endangers the lives of open air farmers.
Shehrir Hussain suggested that we can avoid the deaths caused by the climate change crisis through awareness, installing lightning protection towers and weather forecasting.
According to the United Nations, 300 people are killed by lightning every year in Bangladesh.
It should be noted that Bangladesh recorded the longest heat wave in the history since 1948 during April this year and for the first time there was a continuous heat wave in 75 to 80 percent of the country’s regions.
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