A report on GMA News by Erwin Nicavera on Saturday identified the fatalities as Rubilyn Muedan, Glenn Gotual, Marites Garzon, and Renilda Villanueva (aged between 41 to 52).
An initial police investigation showed that the victims were working at sugarcane filed when a sudden, heavy rain came, forcing them to take shelter in a hut at the middle of the plantation.
Lightning struck the hut, killing four and hurting six others inside the shelter that had no walls, the police report said.
Four of the six wounded are still recuperating while the two have been discharged from the hospital.
Comment: On the same day 3 people were killed and 5 injured by single bolt in Bangladesh while in Kenya a strike killed a student and injured 21 others.