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Lightning bolt kills 3 in Rajshahi, Bangladesh


en.prothom-alo.com
Thu, 12 May 2016 15:57 UTC
Lightning
Three people were killed and four others injured by a lightning strike in Mohonpur upazila on Thursday afternoon, says news agency UNB.

Abdur Razzak, 28, son of Shamsuddin of Ata Narayanpur village, Abdul Aziz, 50 of Hattoir village and Sri Soito Chandra, 30 of Dangapara village died on the spot when a thunderbolt struck them during a storm around 1:30pm, said Abdus Samad, chairman of Mohonpur upazila.

The injured were Jalal Uddin, 40, of Pullakuri village, Alimon Begum, 70 of Baroipara village and Jahanara Begum, 28, of Mollah Dying village of the union.

Meanwhile, another woman was injured by a lightning strike at Dhaminpur village in Baghmara upazila.

The injured were admitted to different hospitals of the district.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 2 students in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aminul Islam Babu
Dhaka Tribune
Thu, 12 May 2016 15:46 UTC
Grief
Two students have been killed in lightning strike at Jatrabari ​in the capital.

Another was also injured in the same incident on Thursday afternoon.

Of the deceased, Mohammad Noman Hasan Lincoln, 21, was a student of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, and Shahed Sohag, 20, was a computer science student of Ahsanullah University.

Inspector Mozammel Haque of Dhaka Medical College police outpost confirmed the deaths.

Witnesses said lightning struck the victims while they were playing football with their peer in Balur Math in the Kather Pool area of Jatrabari around 5pm amid the gusty wind and rain.

They were rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the duty doctors declared Lincoln and Sohag dead around 6pm.

Injured Raiyan is now undergoing treatment at the hospital.

According to the fellows, Lincoln used to help his father in his business besides his study.
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Attention

Thousands of tuna crabs found in Imperial Beach, California

Shannon Handy
cbs8.com
Wed, 11 May 2016 14:38 UTC
Thousands of shrimp wash ashore in Imperial Beach.
© Barbara Richards
Thousands of shrimp wash ashore in Imperial Beach.
Thousands of tuna crab washed ashore near the pier in Imperial Beach Wednesday morning.

Lifeguards first discovered the crabs during low tide. This marks the second year in a row the tuna crabs have washed ashore in such large numbers.

"Just like last year, in June we had a washing of tuna crabs and they think its correlated with El Nino," said Imperial Beach Lifeguard Captain Robert Stabenow. "The warmer waters are pushing them up and when they hit the cold waters of San Diego, they die off."

The majority of the crabs that washed ashore in Imperial Beach are dead, but some are still alive. Experts are advising that people do not eat the crabs because they may be covered in toxins.

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Bizarro Earth

Hungry road: Huge sinkhole swallows car in London


Sputnik
Thu, 12 May 2016 14:27 UTC
London sinkhole
© euronews
A car fell into a large sinkhole which opened up in Greenwich, in southeast London, early Thursday morning.

Metropolitan police received a call at 3:23am (local time), reporting of a sinkhole at Woodland Terrace in Greenwich. Officers found a dark blue family car, a seven-seater Vauxhall Zafira, peeping out of the hole twice as big as the vehicle.

​The car's unlucky owner, Ghazi Hassan, was just visiting his brother the night before and parked the car near Benefice of Charlton St. Thomas' Church.

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Attention

Elephant kills woman taking photographs on Java, Indonesia


abcnews.go.com
Wed, 11 May 2016 08:43 UTC
An endangered Sumatran elephant charged a woman who was taking photographs before picking her up with its trunk and trampling her to death (file picture)

An endangered Sumatran elephant charged a woman who was taking photographs before picking her up with its trunk and trampling her to death (file picture)
An endangered Sumatran elephant charged a woman who was taking photographs, trampling her to death Wednesday at a tourist spot on Indonesia's island of Java.

Veterinarian Octavia Warahapsari took care of two trained Sumatran elephants used for tourist treks at the Gajah Mungkur scenic reservoir in central Java.

Pardiyanto, an official at the reservoir, said one of the elephants charged Warahapsari while she was taking photographs in an open area. She ran but returned to retrieve her dropped cellphone. The elephant caught her in its trunk and threw her to the ground. The 25-year-old Warahapsari died of severe injuries.

"It was tragic," said Pardiyanto, who goes by one name. "People saw this giant animal trample her but they could not do anything to help her," he said.

Only 3,000 Sumatran elephants are believed to remain in the wild. They're threatened by shrinking habitats and poaching.

The two elephants were brought to the reservoir from a zoo in a neighboring town last month to attract more visitors.

Source: The Associated Press
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills three youngsters in Umarkhed, India

TO Abraham
The Times of India
Thu, 12 May 2016 08:34 UTC
Lightning
Three youth met a tragic end at Juni Takli village in Umarkhed tehsil of Yavatmal district on Tuesday evening when lightning struck a tree under which they had taken shelter to protect themselves from rains.

The deceased have been identified as Krishna Sanjay Gaikwad (17), Maruti Gyanba Hapse (30) and Nitin Sheshrao Bahadure (18).

According to sources, Maruti had gone to the farm for grazing the cattle while Nitin and Krishna had gone to bring firewood. At around 6 pm, thundershowers lashed the area forcing the trio to take shelter under a tree in the farm of one Deorao Hapse. As the youth were waiting for the rains to stop, a lightning struck the tree killing them all on the spot.

When the youth did not return home till 7.30 pm, their family members started looking for them and found their bodies lying in the farm.

Umarkhed police have registered a case of accidental death. The bodies were later sent for post mortem.

"We are waiting for the post mortem report," RDC of Yavatmal, Rajesh Khawale, said, adding only after the receipt of the autopsy report, the ex gratia amount would be given to the next of kin as per government norms.
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Rare anticyclonic tornado discovered during recent outbreak in Oklahoma

Jonathan Conder
KOCO Oklahoma City
Wed, 11 May 2016 21:39 UTC
rare anticyclonic tornado

Radar image over Sulphur, Oklahoma on Monday 9th May

A closer look at the anticyclonic tornado track

Most tornadoes spin counter-clockwise, but during Monday's tornado outbreak, one tornado was spinning clockwise or backwards.

Anticyclonic tornadoes are very, very rare, but a tornado near Roff, Oklahoma, was on the ground for almost 13 miles.

An anticyclonic twister developed about 6 miles north-northwest of Sulphur and moved northeast. The tornado has been rated as an EF1 tornado with winds up to 110 mph.

The tornado was likely wrapped in precipitation and not very visible. At the same time, a larger EF-3 tornado was on the ground, moving to the east, about 6 miles to the west of the anticyclonic tornado. One could even consider this rare tornado as it satellite tornado to moved around the larger tornadic circulation.

Click on the related content to see what both tornadoes looked like with Doppler radar imagery.

Comment: Two die in Oklahoma storm as 23 tornadoes rip across US midwest

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Arrow Up

5.6 magnitude earthquake strikes northeast Taiwan


Channel News Asia
Thu, 12 May 2016 04:15 UTC
Taiwan quake map
© google
The US Geological Survey revised down its original assessment of 5.9-magnitude.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 shook northeast Taiwan on Thursday (May 12), the US Geological Survey said, with tremors felt as far away as the capital, Taipei.

The quake was centred 14 km (nine miles) northeast of the coastal town of Su-ao, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

AFP reporters in Taipei said Thursday's quake rocked high-rise blocks. There were also reports by local media of power cuts and people trapped in lifts, it added.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The USGS initially assessed it to be a 5.9-magnitude quake, before revising the figure down. It added that the earthquake was 10-kilometre below earth's surface.

Earthquakes are common in Taiwan. In February, a 6.4-magnitude quake toppled a large apartment complex in southern Taiwan killing more than 100 people. The island's worst quake disaster came in September 1999 when a 7.6-magnitude earthquake killed around 2,400 people.
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Fish

Chile's fishing-rich waters hit by unprecedented 'red tide' crisis


The Guardian
Wed, 11 May 2016 02:34 UTC
chile red tide
© Alvaro Vidal/Agence France-Presse
Thousands of clams beached in southern Chile where fish and shellfish has been poisoned by the red tide, heaping economic pressure on fishermen.
The 'red tide' algal bloom, which turns the sea water red and makes seafood toxic, is believed to be one of the country's worst recent environmental crises

A "red tide" outbreak is widening in southern Chile's fishing-rich waters, the government has said, deepening what is already believed to be one of the country's worst environmental crises in recent years.

The red tide - an algal bloom that turns the seawater red and makes seafood toxic - is a common, naturally recurring phenomenon in southern Chile, but the extent of the current outbreak is unprecedented.

The southern region of Los Lagos has been affected in recent weeks by the largest red tide in its history, prompting fishermen deprived of their livelihoods to angrily demand more support from the government.

Now there are signs that Los Ríos, the neighbouring region to the north, has also been affected, local officials warn.
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Snowflake

Spring snowstorm causes loss of power for tens of thousands in Bozeman, Montana; up to 20 inches of snow


Independent Record
Wed, 11 May 2016 19:05 UTC
Snow on road
A spring storm swept through Montana, dumping up to 20 inches of snow in the mountains and knocking out power to tens of thousands of people across the state, officials said Tuesday.

Approximately 30,000 homes and businesses in Bozeman lost electricity on Tuesday morning as the storm moved through, NorthWestern Energy spokesman Butch Larcombe said. The lights were back on across most of the city less than two hours later, and crews worked to restore the remaining powerless areas and to find the cause of the outages.

"We had an issue with the transmission line," Larcombe said. "We don't know what the issue is, but we expect it's related to snow and wind."

The night before, the storm cut power to customers in Phillipsburg and Judith Gap. There were pockets of smaller outages scattered across central and southwestern Montana, Larcombe said.

Heavy snow fell in the Little Belt Mountains Tuesday with about a foot falling at the Belt Creek Ranger District office in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest.
© Beth Ihle
Heavy snow fell in the Little Belt Mountains Tuesday with about a foot falling at the Belt Creek Ranger District office in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest.
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