At least five children were killed by lightning while playing cricket on a school pitch near the northern Bangladesh town of Gafargaon, police said Monday.
The children, aged nine and 10, died on the spot as lightning struck the pitch at Makhal Kaldhair village, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Dhaka, local police chief Abdur Rashid Shikder said.
"Among the dead were two brothers. Other kids who were playing the cricket match late Sunday afternoon were unhurt but were very shocked to see their friends dead on the ground," he said.
Lightning kills dozens of people in rural Bangladesh every year during the early summer and monsoon periods when storms sweep in from the Bay of Bengal.