MUZAFFARGARH: As many as 36 goats died after a lightning strike during rain at village Khairaywala near Chowk Sarwar Shaheed.
According to local people, the cost of the goats is stated over Rs 1.8 million.
The goats belonged to cattle farmer Muhammad Sharif who belonged to district Layyah and his village is located near Chowk Sarwar Shaheed (Muzaffargarh). The local people expressed grief over the loss of the precious goats.
The farmer appealed to the Punjab government to assist him financially as the mishap would create much trouble in his life.
A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning. A less common type of strike, ground-to-cloud (GC) lightning, is upward-propagating lightning initiated from a tall grounded object and reaching into the clouds.
