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One person was killed while six others were injured on Wednesday afternoon when a lightning struck a hut in Banrangay Calicuang in Dingle town in Iloilo.

The lone fatality was identified as Jojo Arban of Lemery town in Iloilo who went to the farm to work as a laborer.

Wounded were Roland Tuazon, 34; Reyland Teรฑeso, 28; and Herminildo Tamayo, 55 all of Barangay Tanghawan in Dingle; Reymund Daraug, 22 of Barangay San Jose, Dingle; Ninoy Narciso, 25 of Daraug Street in Dingle and Danny Dusaran, 36 of Barotac Viejo town.

The victims took shelter in the middle of a farm to take shelter from the heavy rain about 3 p.m. Suddenly, they heard a loud explosion and were thrown out of the hut.

"We were having shelter at the hut when we heard a huge explosion and we felt our bodies were trembling and the hut was shaking," Tuazon said in Hiligaynon.

Arban, the lone fatality, fell in the canal.

โ€‹The survivors were confined at Iloilo Provincial Hospital in Pototan town. They complained of body aches and dizziness.