GARDEZ, Afghanistan, March 12 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and five others sustained injury, all members of the same family, as a lightning struck a house in the eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province on Tuesday night, provincial police spokesman Munib Zadran said Wednesday.

The natural disaster took place late Tuesday night in Sayed Karam district, leaving a 14-year-old boy dead and injuring five others, including four of his siblings and an aged man, the official added, saying all the injured have been shifted to a hospital in the provincial capital Gardez.

A similar incident claimed one life and injured four others in the Spinghar district of the eastern Nangarhar province a couple of months ago.

Parts of Afghanistan, including Paktia province and the national capital Kabul, have experienced snowfall and heavy rains with thunder and lightning over the past one month. Enditem

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