Officials said separate incidents of lightning killed at least twenty-seven people and injured over two dozens of others in different areas of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province during the last twenty-four hours.


Saeed Ghani, the provincial government spokes man said that local authorities declared an emergency and rushed rescuers to the Thar Desert in the province of Sindh after the overnight tragedy.


He added that several dozens of people including women and children were being treated at the hospitals.
They sustained injuries caused by lightning and falling structures due to the rain.