The weather has been bad in Punjab for two days. It is raining with lots of lightning and thunder. A 22-year-old youth died due to lightning in village Sidhwan of Kapurthala late evening. A young farmer was working in his field in the evening when lightning struck him.
This information has been given by DSP Sub Division Harpreet Singh. Jaskirat Singh Jassi, 22, son of Jasveer Singh Sidhu, resident of village Sidhwan, was covering the pile of potatoes in his fields with a tarpaulin due to bad weather of rain and thunder on Friday evening, when suddenly lightning fell from the sky. Due to which young Jaskirat Singh died on the spot.
Laborers working in the fields told that when lightning fell on the young man, flames were visible and the laborers working in the fields also poured water on the fire. But by then the young man had died.