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Klyuchevskoi Volcano
Klyuchevskoi Volcano
"A column of ash above the Klyuchevskoi Volcano rose to eight kilometers above the sea level today," a spokesman for the service said.
According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry's Kamchatka department, winds carried the plumes of ash away from nearby settlements.
The 4,750-meter-tall (15,580-feet) volcano is located in the Kamchatka Peninsula's Ust-Kamchatka District. There are no international airplane routes in the Klyuchevskoye volcano area.
Some persons were rearing cattle in Muhammadpur village last evening when they were struck by lightning, In charge of Satrikh police station, Ajay Kumar Singh said.
Anil Kumar Kannaujia (16), Abhishek (12) and Hema (11) were killed while Chhavinath, Shiv Prakash and Bablu have sustained burn injuries, he said.
The injured have been admitted to the district hospital, Singh said.
District Magistrate Akhilesh Kumar Tiwari announced that Rs four lakh each will be given to the kin of the deceased.
He also visited the hospital to inquire the well being of the injured persons.
Source: Press Trust of India
Video footage shows the moment the lightning hits the scooter rider in Guangxi province
The incident took place in Guilin City, southern China's Guangxi province.
According to reports, the 57-year-old rider surname Tang was hurt but did not suffer any life-threatening injuries.
Video footage shows the moment the bolt of lightning struck the rider as he was nearing the end of Xinyi bridge in Guilin.
Pictures show the damage caused to the seat of the man's scooter.
Pavel Tordaj, 42, a farmer, shows corn damaged by drought as he stands inside his field of corn in Padina, Serbia, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017.
As the drought's costs become clearer, temperatures in Serbia, Romania, Hungary and Croatia soared to nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) again on Thursday following a few days of moderately less oppressive heat.
The region is enduring one of the hottest and driest summers in years, during which several people have died and dozens of wildfires have flared. The drought has also ratcheted up demand for water and electricity.
Serbia has been one of the hardest hit countries, with experts saying an estimated 60 percent of corn crops destroyed. The ministry of ecology also says water levels across the country have dropped drastically, threatening fish stocks.
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He said Sen's 22-year-old son Girish was with him when the attack happened, but the tiger had fatally injured the farmer on his neck and then escaped. Adarsh Kumar, Pilibhit Divisional Forest Officer (Social Forestry), said the spot where Sen was killed is about eight kilometres away from the place where another farmer, Shamsul Rahman Malik, was killed on Tuesday, and Mohammad Tasleem was killed on Monday.
"There is a possibility that this could have been done by the same tiger. We have formed six teams to track the tiger and they have been moving in the fields everyday to trace and tranquilise it. But their time is often wasted by villagers who insist they have seen the tiger in areas where the animal is not present. There is fear and anger among the people," he said.
A man has been critically injured after being attacked by a bull (not pictured).
Ambulance Victoria paramedics initially responded to a report of a man in a critical condition after being injured by a bull at about 3pm.
The victim died at the scene.
A Victoria Police statement said: "Police will prepare a report for the Coroner following an animal incident on private property in Bamawm.
"A man aged in his 50s died at the scene. Worksafe will investigate."
A dead humpback whale was pulled from the bow of the Grand Princess cruise ship Wednesday in Ketchikan, Alaska
The Grand Princess, a 949-foot (290-meter) ship in the Princess Cruises fleet, on Wednesday morning pulled into Ketchikan with the marine mammal lodged on its submerged, bulbous bow, a device designed to avoid wave-making.
Princess spokesman Brian O'Connor said the company was surprised and saddened to discover the whale.
'It is unknown how or when this happened as the ship felt no impact,' he said in a statement.
'It is also unknown, at this time, whether the whale was alive or already deceased before becoming lodged on the bow.'
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Students use their hands to cover their heads as they evacuate their school premises after an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hit the northern island of Luzon.
Students use their hands to cover their heads as they evacuate their school premises after an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hit the northern island of Luzon.
Office workers in the capital left their buildings but no damage was apparent after the quake struck about midday Friday.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the earthquake's epicenter was five kilometres (three miles) southwest of Batangas province's Lian town at a depth of 173 kilometres (107 miles).
