AHMEDABAD: A 57-year-old man from Sector 6 in Gandhinagar died after being struck by lighting when he was standing under a neem tree outside the canteen of the Old Secretariat in Sector 10-A on Tuesday afternoon.
Rajnikant Dulera, a peon with the Gandhinagar district panchayat office in Sector-17, went to deliver letters to the old secretariat and then went to the canteen for refreshments, said inspector Dharmendra Chaudhari of Sector-7 police.
Chaudhari said that when he went out, it was raining, so he stood under the neem tree outside the canteen in Block Number 11, waiting for the rain to stop. Lightning then struck him and he collapsed there itself.
Some workers from the Old Secretariat rushed to him and on finding him unconscious, called an ambulance.
He was taken to Gandhinagar Civil Hospital where he was declared brought dead.
“Prima facie, it seems that he suffered a massive cardiac arrest due to the lightning and this may be the cause of his death,” said Chaudhary.
He said his wife, Ramila Dulera, is a peon in the district employment office and they have two children, 23 and 21.
