Ahmedabad: A 18-year-old woman from Khodiyar Village in Ahmedabad District died after being shocked by Lightning at Adalaj PTC (Primary Training College) on Wednesday afternoon, when he stood under a tree along with a friend to take refuge from the rain.
His friend was very important and had been treated in the ICU in the Civil Sol Hospital.
According to the local residents, Namrata Thakor, 18, and his friend Aarti Jadeja, 18, a resident of Khoraj, both the first year students at PTC, was their college gate when it rained on Wednesday afternoon.
They stood under the tree waiting for the rain to stop when lightning hit them and they fainted.
Thakor died in place and was declared dead by a doctor at the hospital.
Jadyja was treated unconscious and medium in treatment.
On September 14, a 57-year-old man from Sector 6 in Gandhinagar, Rajikan Dulera, died after being beaten by lightning.
TNN.