Lightning Strike kills five at funeral

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

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Lightning Strike kills five at funeral*

From correspondents in Shanghai

August 14, 2007 04:39pm
Article from: Reuters

LIGHTNING killed five mourners attending a Chinese funeral, state media
said today.

Lightning struck a shack a villager had built to hold Friday's wake for
his dead wife in the eastern province of Jiangsu.

Three mourners were killed outright, 16 were injured and two died later
in hospital, the Shanghai Daily said.

The victims were two middle-aged women, two 14-year-old boys and a
four-year-old child, it added.

Lightning strikes killed 403 people across the country up to July this
year - equivalent to the entire total in 2006 - the paper said, citing
the China Meteorological Administration.