Cash aid provided to family of lightning victim in Kengtung Twsp.

Kengtung, 11 August

An event to provide financial aid to the family of lightning victim was held at the meeting room of the Township Administration Council in Kengtung Township, Shan State (East) this morning.

At the event, chairman of the Township Administration Council U Hlaing Maung Maung and staff from the Township Disaster Management Department provided Ks. 300000 to the family of lightning victim.

A women was struck to death by lightning while she was looking after piglets in the pigsty during heavy rain in Pintauk Village in Kengtung Township on 10 August.—Aung Zin Myint(IPRD)

Translated by JT