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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>A 21-year-old man has died after being struck by lightning while planting maize at his garden in Dowa District. Dowa Police Station spokesperson Sub Inspector Gladson M\u2019bumpha said the man identified as Greysom Dalileni met his fate at Mkuwani Village when he was at the garden planting maize seeds.<\/p>\n

M\u2019bumpha said that the man and his friend Alex Christopher aged 17 went to the garden at Mkuwani Village. \u201cAt about 12:30 hours, rains started and when the two were about to finish planting the remaining four ridges, they were struck by lightning and both fell down unconscious,\u201d explained M\u2019bumpha.<\/p>\n

He went on to say that after some minutes, Christopher woke up while Greysom Dalileni remained lying down. Then Christopher went to a nearby house and informed Senior Group Village Headman Mkuwani about the incident who rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n

Greysom Dalileni was taken to Chezi Mission Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The matter was reported to police and police officers in company of a medical personnel went to the clinic where postmortem conducted established that he died due to electric shock secondary to lightning. The deceased, Greysom Dalileni, hailed from Mkuwani Village in Traditional Authority Mkukula in Dowa District.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Malawi. A 21-year-old man has died after being struck by lightning while planting maize at his garden in Dowa District. Dowa Police Station spokesperson Sub Inspector Gladson M\u2019bumpha said the man identified as Greysom Dalileni met his fate at Mkuwani Village when he was at the garden planting maize seeds. 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