Khaberni - Three Egyptians perished in Beheira Governorate, north of Cairo, after being struck by lightning bolts while they were in agricultural lands in separate incidents that created a state of terror among the rural residents.
According to Egyptian security forces, among the victims was an 11-year-old child and two young men, in addition to a woman who sustained severe burns and was transported to the hospital, and the death of a domestic animal, amid a weather wave hitting the Delta.
The security forces received immediate notifications, and preliminary investigations confirmed that the incidents were due to a sudden thunderstorm, reminding us of the dangers nature poses in agricultural areas.
Beheira Governorate, which is one of the largest agricultural governorates in Egypt and has about 6 million residents, witnessed consecutive incidents due to lightning bolts during an unstable weather wave announced by the Meteorological Authority on Monday morning.
According to emergency reports, the incidents occurred in dispersed areas during the early afternoon hours, where the victims were either working on their agricultural lands or herding their livestock, reflecting the danger of lightning in exposed and moist areas like the Nile Delta, where the risk of lightning increases by 30% during heavy rains or thunderstorms.
In the center of Damanhour, the security directorate received a notification from the teaching hospital that a motionless body of Anwar Fathi Anwar (37 years old, farmer) arrived, and Hajar Salama Shaaban (27 years old, housewife) was injured with burns on her left forearm and left thigh, due to lightning strike while they were working in agricultural land.
In Itay el-Barud, the general hospital received the body of Abdel Rahman Eid (11 years old) who was playing near agricultural land when he was struck by lightning, and also the death of a domestic animal that the family was tending to.
In Kafr El-Dawar, Ahmad Faraj Said Abdel Fadil (23 years old) perished while working in a wheat field, where the forensic medicine confirmed that the electrocution was instantaneous due to high humidity in the soil.
The Meteorological Authority announced a wave of unstable weather hitting the north of the Delta since yesterday, with heavy rainfall and lightning bolts resulting from a cold air stream from the northwest, which raises the temperature to 28 degrees Celsius during the day and 18 at night, with strong winds reaching 40 km/h.
