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The group was hiking in the popular Ergaki national park in southern central Russia when the tragedy occurred on July 27.
Krasnoyarsk regional news service reports that the men scaled a wall of rocks once they saw the "drooling" bear - but one man, Yevenggny Starkov, 42, lagged behind.
One of the survivors told the local news that they watched their friend get devoured before fleeing further into the forest after the bear caught sight of them.
The witness at the scene said she believes it was a black bear that attacked her co-worker.
Swan Hills RCMP said they received a complaint of the bear attack shortly after 3 p.m. The victim was a tree planter from around the hamlet of Peers, working in the Swan Hills area with her co-worker.
"She was evacuated by her co-worker on a helicopter and brought back to the Swan Hills Airport where they met up with an ambulance, emergency crews, and she was subsequently declared deceased at the airport," RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Troy Savinkoff said Monday.
The witness at the scene told RCMP she believed it was a black bear, but RCMP said they have reached out to Alberta Fish and Wildlife who are taking the lead on the investigation to determine what type of bear it was and try to locate it.
Swan Hills is approximately 221 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
State, federal and contracted firefighters, augmented by helicopters and planes dropping fire retardant, pounced on the new wildfires in national forests in southwest Oregon before they could spread out of control. The largest one was estimated at up to 5 acres (2 hectares).
Thunderstorms unleashed some 700 lightning bolts that hit the ground and also brought rain to some places, but left others dry while triggering multiple fires, said Margueritte Hickman, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service.
Firefighters and support personnel worked through the night to locate and extinguish fires.
The quake was at a depth of 40 km, EMSC said.
Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill
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More movement was expected as fresh cracks had appeared on the cliff top
More movement was expected as fresh cracks had appeared on the cliff top
The large rock fall, which happened on Saturday, blocked off the beach between Eype and Seatown in Dorset.
Dorset Council warned the fall had "not yet settled" and the ground inland was "relaxing with more cracks opening up".
The authority has urged people to obey the safety signs and not cross the cordons or climb on the debris on the beach.
The deceased are Dulal Hossain, 59, and Mofazzal Hossain, 52, of Ratanpur village.
Four other farmers were seriously injured in the incident.
The police said some farmers of Ratanpur village went to plant Aman paddy around 9:00am.
A thunderbolt struck six of them, leaving two dead on the spot.
Later, local people rescued the injured.
Palash Chandra Deb, officer-in-charge of Panchbibi police station, said the injured were admitted to Joypurhat Adhunik Hospital.
Source: United News of Bangladesh
They were working on an agricultural field in Santoshpur village under Nalhati police station. When it started raining, the three took shelter in an abandoned hut which was struck by lightning killing them.
Of the three deceased, Jagannath Tudu and his wife Sumi Tudu were residents of Santoshpur, while Dilu Hembram hailed from Jharkhand, police said.
The bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.
Source: Press Trust of India
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Motorcyclist killed on I-95 due to lightning strike, police say
Motorcyclist killed on I-95 due to lightning strike, police say
The victim was traveling with his brother around 5 p.m. when his brother said a nearby lightning strike caused the victim to veer into the shoulder and hit the guardrail, according to Liberty County Sheriffs Office Capt. Dennis Poulsen.
The victim flipped over the guardrail and landed on the grassy area, while the motorcycle continued to drive along the guardrail before crossing the three lanes of the interstate where it stopped.
No other vehicle was involved.
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A CHP helicopter that landed near Muir Trail Ranch to retrieve the body of Nicholas Torchia, who was struck by lightning.
A CHP helicopter that landed near Muir Trail Ranch to retrieve the body of Nicholas Torchia, who was struck by lightning.
The man was identified as Nicholas Torchia of Fresno. The Fresno County Coroner's Office determined Torchia died by electrocution caused by lightning.
Torchia was struck by lightning near Muir Trail Ranch, a remote, roadless location east of Florence Lake, while he was on the Sallie Keyes Cutoff, a short segment between the John Muir Trail and Florence Lake Trail.
The Fresno County Sheriff's Office got a call about the incident around 2:20 p.m. Friday and Torchia's body was recovered around 6 p.m. once a California Highway Patrol helicopter was able to fly in during a break in the storm, sheriff's spokesman Tony Botti said.
"Torchia took cover by leaning against a tree," Botti said, "a tree which was then struck by a lightning bolt. Torchia fell to the ground. His fellow hikers came to check on him and he told them he didn't feel well and then became unconscious. A doctor and a nurse who were on the trail tended to Torchia by administering CPR for three hours. Despite their great efforts, he ultimately passed away."
Comment: In just the last year or so there seems to have been a significant uptick in the number and severity of landslides, rockfalls and sinkholes:
- Four dead and 80 still missing after torrential rains triggered a devastating landslide in Atami, Japan - UPDATE
- Himalayan glacier bursts in India causing flash flooding & destroying dam, 150 feared dead
- Huge landslide at peat bog in Donegal, Ireland
- Huge landslide hits residential area after large amounts of precipitation in southern Norway, 10 hurt, 26 unaccounted for
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