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Four people killed, six injured by lightning bolt in Arunachal Pradesh, India

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Three children and a woman were killed and six others injured after being struck by lightning in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday, an official said.

The tragedy occurred at Gandhigram village in Vijaynagar area under Changlang district.

The deceased have been identified as Jalina Yobin, 12, Chanisa Yobin, 14, Chathiya Yobin, 13, and Shalida Yobin, 38 (all female).

Out of six injured, one is said to be in very critical condition warranting immediate air evacuation for further treatment.

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Deadly thunderstorm hits Russia's Sverdlovsk region

Storm in Nizhny Tagil, Russia
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A powerful storm hit Sverdlovsk Region on Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring three others. Footage from the area shows the destruction sustained by the storm in Nizhny Tagil. Over 30,000 people were forced to go without electricity and dozens of building were damaged as a result.


Comment: Less than one week ago 16 people died in Moscow, with at least another hundred injured, after the worst storm to hit the city in living memory, and probably the worst since the 19th century. See also:

Updates: Worst ever natural disaster: Death toll from Moscow storm rises to 16 (VIDEOS)


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Lightning bolts kill 2 family members and 20 goats in Maharashtra, India

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A mother and her son were killed today in Hudi village of the district after lightning struck them, a senior district official said.

Babytai Jayawant Bule (40) and her son Vikas (14), both residents of Tulsinagar village, had gone to Hudi to harvest groundnuts, when the incident took place, he said.

In a separate incident, 20 goats were killed when lightning struck them in village Katkheda, the officer added.

Source: Press Trust of India

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Monstrous tornado touches down near highway in Alberta, Canada

Tornado in Alberta, Canada
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Video from Alberta, Canada on Friday shows a monstrous tornado touching down as cars continue to drive towards the storm on a nearby highway.

Environment Canada, the government agency tasked with sending out weather alerts, said the tornado was produced by a thunderstorm, CTV reported.

Environment Canada had issued a warning for parts of the Kneehill County area shortly after 5 p.m. Friday due to an "eyewitness report" of a possible tornado, CTV reported. By 5:27 p.m., the storm had produced a tornado.


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3 people and 12 cattle killed by lightning strikes in Nashik, India

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Three persons were killed and one injured in separate incidents of lightning strike amid heavy rains and thunderstorm in the district.

Eight houses were damaged and nearly 12 cattle also died in different talukas of Nashik after heavy rains occurred yesterday, a source at the collector's office here said.

Nashik city and the talukas of Malegaon, Igatpuri, Trimbakeshwar, Nandgaon and Niphad in the district experienced heavy pre-monsoon showers, leading to water-logging and disruption of power supply at various places.

Samadhan Sumrao (30) and Sunanda Gaikwad (32), from different villages in Malegaon, and Vithal Ughade (25), from Igatpuri, were killed after lightning struck them.

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Lightning strikes kills five in Telangana, India

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In different incidents, five persons were killed due to lighting in Mancherial and Nirmal districts on Saturday evening.

In the first incident, two daily wagers died on the spot and three laborers sustained critical injuries following a lighting strike when they were standing under a tree at Chintapudi-lingala village in Kannepalli mandal of Mancherial district. Medical condition of the two of the injured is said to be critical.

Sources said that the deceased were Choudari Chandraiah (45) and Sidem Bapu (64), residents of Chintapudi-lingala village. The injured included Elkari Shankar and Choudari Shankar belonging to similar village and another laborer from Jilleda of Vemanapalli mandal.

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No More Lake in Costa Rica's Poas Volcano's Crater

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Poas volcano crater
The lake of the Poas volcano has completely disappeared due to the intense activity that the colossus has maintained since April.

There's just a little water in the northern sector and the rest is gone because of the heat produced by the magmatic body.

Another change is that at the central part of the crater there are fumaroles that used to be on the bottom, making the degassing even more remarkable.

This Friday the cameras became active at 1 pm and showed that there was an eruption. It lasted until 7 pm with the emission of ash, water vapor and white gases. The ash column reached 1,000 meters high.

It was expected that the volcanic material would be moved westward, falling in the Central Valley and highlands of Guanacaste.

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Alberta's Three Hills tornado captured in amazing time-lapse

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© Dodi BrauenA tornado touches down near Three Hills on June 2, 2017.
Residents of a central Alberta town got a front-row seat to a spectacular spring tornado Friday afternoon. The twister touched down a little after 5 p.m. in a field a few kilometres northeast of the town of Three Hills, kicking up a large amount of dirt and dust as it bore its way east.

Incredible time-lapse footage of the twister was uploaded to YouTube by user Vance Neudorf.

Click here to watch on YouTube

Resident Dodi Brauen was watching the storm clouds from her front porch when the tornado started to take shape. "It started to rain, a little bit, and then I said 'oh, that looks like a funnel cloud.'" she said. "It looked like it was drawing the dust up." Watching from her home on the east outskirts of town, she said the tornado seemed to bypass her house before continuing on east.

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Taiwan photographer captures rare purple lightning

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Late rock star Prince was famous for his song "Purple Rain," but did you ever see purple lightning?

Taiwanese nature photographer Luis Lai (賴仲由) did, and he captured it on his smartphone.

Friday night, as extreme torrential rains were battering large parts of Taiwan, Lai went to the top floor of his home in the Changhua County village of Dacun (大村), reports said.

He only wanted to check whether all the doors and windows were ready to withstand the rain, but in addition, he saw bolts of lightning and hurried to record six seconds on his smartphone as it struck behind a red-roofed building in his neighborhood.

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Golfer dies in hospital after being struck by lightning in Suffolk, UK

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A man has died after he was struck by lightning on a Suffolk golf course.

Philip Shard, 60, died in hospital last week after being struck and collapsed while playing golf at the Fynn Valley Golf Club, Witnesham last Saturday.

The club said it was a "tragic incident". A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said crews "treated a man, believed to be in his 60s, who was in cardiac arrest".

Mr Shard was married and lived in Rushmere, near Ipswich.