Lightning has claimed the lives of two people at Phukot VDC-2 here in the district on Sunday night.
The deceased were 45-year-old Prem Tamata and 42-year-old Krishna Prasad Neupane of ward no. 4, police said.
The deceased had been to Simti, a place at four kilometres distance from their village, to plant the apple saplings when the thunderbolt at once claimed their lives.
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