I REFER to your article “The dos and don’ts during thunderstorms” (Dec 10) and would like to comment on the number of deaths due to lightning in the country that was revealed by the director-general of the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD) Jailan Simon.
According to Jailan, there were 132 fatalities due to lightning strikes from 2008 up to August 2019, that is a period of nearly 12 years. The question now is where did the department obtain this number and how reliable is it?
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