Lightning strike injures fisherman


Painful episode: Syamsul being treated at the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital.

ALOR SETAR: A 31-year-old fisherman was admitted to the Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital with serious burns on his neck and body after he was struck by lightning off the Kuala Kangkung coast here.

Syamsul Anuar Muhamad from Kampung Tepi Laut in Kuala Kedah was fishing with his cousin Mohd Nazarrudin Hamid, 26, when the incident happened at 2am on Saturday.

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