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29 March 2024

Lightning kills farm worker in Dhaid

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An 18-year-old Asian farm worker died after he was struck by lightning at his employer’s farm in Dhaid, Sharjah, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The labourer was working with his colleagues on the farm on Friday night when it started to rain, said ‘Emarat Alyoum’ Arabic language daily.

It quoted the UAE farm owner as saying he was at home when he was called by his workers telling him one of their colleagues had collapsed after he was struck by lightning.

“I checked him and he was lying there motionless…he had a blue bruise like a burn on his face and I knew that he had been struck by lightning,” the owner said.

The paper said the worker was rushed to hospital on Friday night but he was already dead, adding that his body would be handed to his father who works in a nearby farm.