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Four people were killed in lightning strikes in three districts — Mymensingh, Bogura and Sunamganj — on Wednesday, reports UNB. In Mymensingh, two people died after being hit by lightning while catching fish in two separate beels — one at Kolakanda village in Muktagachha upazila and the other at Nattakuri village in Sadar upazila. […]
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‘Piercing the atmosphere’: Hurricane lightning blasted antimatter at the Earth
May 23rd, 2018 
Awake Goy On 23 October 2015, the NOAA Airborne Detector for Energetic Lightning Emissions (ADELE) flew through the eyewall of the category five storm. In order to be classified as a category five, a hurricane must have sustained winds exceeding 156mph (70 m/s; 136kn; 251kph). The crew became the first humans to witness a terrestrial gamma-ray flash […]
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No Comments »Lightning bolt kills 5 in SW Cambodia
May 18th, 2018 Awake Goy Five villagers were killed by a lightning strike on Thursday during a torrential rain in southwestern Cambodia’s Koh Kong province, according to the National Police’s website. The incident took place at 3:00 p.m. local time in Prolay village of Thmor Baing district when the victims, including two women, were constructing a wooden house under […]
Nine people over 120 animals killed by lightning strikes in just one month across Turkey
May 17th, 2018 Awake Goy A total of nine people have been killed due to lightning strikes over the past month across Turkey, with experts warning that the rising number of such incidents could be related to a boom in magnetic fields across the world, daily Habertürk reported on May 17. Some 26 people were injured and more than […]
Lightning kills father and son in Liberia
May 15th, 2018 Awake Goy Lightning has struck and killed a 57 year – old man said to be a lawyer, Mr. Sumo Mulbah, Sr. and his 11 year – old son Sumo Mulbah, Jr. in the VOA Community in Brewerville, Montserrado County. According to the wife of the decease Mrs. Victoria Mulbah, her husband, Mr. Mulbah, Sr. was […]
29 killed in lightning strikes in 24 hours across Bangladesh – 112 such deaths in May so far
May 10th, 2018 Awake Goy Dozens of Bangladeshis were killed in lightning strikes as pre-monsoon thunderstorms wreaked havoc across the South Asian country, an official said Thursday. Farmers harvesting rice in open fields made up the majority of victims, Iftekharul Islam, a director at Bangladesh’s disaster management department, told AFP. “In the last 24 hours, 29 people have died […]
Posted in World News Tags: across, bangladesh, deaths, hours, killed, lightning, strikes No Comments »Lightning strikes kill 7 more in 3 districts of Bangladesh
May 7th, 2018 Awake Goy Seven people, including a schoolgirl, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in Sunamganj, Sherpur and Habiganj districts on Monday. In Habiganj, two farmers were killed and another was injured when a thunderbolt struck them at Telghari haor in Baniachang upazila in the morning, reports UNB. The deceased are Adhir Baishnab, 27, and […]
Lightning bolt kills shepherd and over 200 sheep, goats in Pakistan
May 5th, 2018 Awake Goy A lightning strike Friday killed a shepherd and more than 200 sheep and goats at the “Mosa Ka Mussala hilltop”. According to police, 45-year old shepherded Aleem s/o Kar Khan resident of Meethal village was grazing his flock of 200 sheep and goats in Malian when a lightning strike killed him and over 200 […]
Lightning strikes kill 19, injure at least 16 others across Bangladesh
April 30th, 2018 Awake Goy At least 16 others were injured when lightning bolts slammed into the ground in Sirajganj, Magura, Naogaon, Rangamati, Noakhali, Sunamganj, Brahmanbaria, Gopalganj and Gazipur on Sunday. In Sirajganj, five people were killed and four others injured by the outburst of lightning different areas of the district on Sunday. Two died in Shahjadpur Upazila, two […]
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April 5th, 2018 Awake Goy Three people were killed and other two injured when lightning struck during a downpour in Bukasero village in Bukatube sub-county, Mayuge district on Sunday. The Police identified the deceased as Muniru Dembele, 41, Rashid Mutebe, 27, and Ronald Okware 16, all residents of Bukasero. The survivors are Kadiri Kadabo, 17 and Matia Mugalya, 27. […]
Robot’s Rubik’s revenge: Cult cube torn asunder in lightning fast solution bid (VIDEOS)
March 10th, 2018 Awake Goy If you too have experienced this rage, you’ll undoubtedly enjoy watching a robot try to solve one so fast that the distinctly-colored cube explodes. Finally, justice for enraged cube players everywhere. READ MORE: Done in 60 seconds: Skydiver solves Rubik’s Cube in freefall jump (VIDEO) The device, built by engineers Ben Katz and Jared Di […]
Posted in World News Tags: asunder, lightning, revenge, robot, rubik, solution, videos No Comments »3 killed by lightning strikes in Rajouri, India
February 14th, 2018 Awake Goy A woman was killed when she was struck by lightning in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said today. Parveen Akhtar (35) was inside her house in Kandi village when she was struck by the lightning last night, a police official said. Her death raised the number of people killed in lightning incidents […]
Lightning strikes twice: Thunderstorm rocks hospital again (VIDEO)
January 2nd, 2018 Awake Goy Severe thunderstorms hit Australian towns including Warwick, Toomwoomba, Dalby, Gympia and Gladstone on Monday and Tuesday. Images on social media show ominous clouds rolling over the southeast town of Warwick, where a lightning bolt caused damage to panels on the roof of Warwick Hospital. front of the storm rolling in hot #rain #hail #noshine #niceweather […]
Posted in World News Tags: again, hospital, lightning, rocks, strikes, thunderstorm, twice No Comments »Lightning kills 80 people in Cambodia during 2017
December 26th, 2017 Awake Goy Eighty Cambodians, mostly rural residents, were killed by lightning strikes in 2017, down 26 percent from the 108 deaths in 2016, a disaster control spokesman said on Monday. Besides the fatalities, thunderbolts also injured 63 others this year, down 40 percent from the 105 injuries last year, said Keo Vy, the spokesman for the […]
Lightning strikes man to death in Zambia
December 19th, 2017 Awake Goy A 22 year old man of Lupili compound in Luwingu district has died after lightning struck him at the weekend. Northern Province Deputy Police Commissioner Edwin Bwanga confirmed the development to Zambia News and Information Service in Luwingu today saying the incident happened on Saturday in the afternoon. Mr. Bwanga named the deceased as […]
Woman dies after being struck by lightning while playing golf in Belek, Turkey
December 8th, 2017 Awake Goy A British woman has died after being struck by lightning while playing golf with her husband on a romantic holiday in Turkey. Sarah Oldham, 39, suffered a cardiac arrest after being hit by a lightning bolt as she sheltered under an umbrella when it started to rain on the course in Belek, on Turkeys […]
Scientists create ‘lightning in a bottle’ for 1st time in history (VIDEO)
November 16th, 2017 Awake Goy Plasma is one of the four most common states of matter on Earth, and is comprised of highly ionized gas. Lightning is a form of plasma, as is the weather phenomenon Saint Elmo’s fire, when glowing balls of light appear on pointed objects during storms. Fluorescent light bulbs and neon lights contain other forms of […]
Shock horror: Passenger plane hit by lightning in skies above Amsterdam (VIDEO)
November 14th, 2017 Awake Goy READ MORE: Nerve-shredding moment airliner makes epic nose-first landing caught on camera (PHOTOS) In dramatic footage posted online, a bolt of lightning is shown hitting the nose of the daily flight from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport to the Peruvian capital of Lima. Amazingly, the Boeing 777-300ER continued unperturbed, landing at Lima airport on schedule 12 hours […]
30,000 lightning strikes and large hail as ‘super-cell’ storms hit New South Wales
October 27th, 2017 Awake Goy More than 30,000 lightning strikes battered the Hunter Region as intense ‘super-cell’ storms hit the east coast overnight. The storms brought wind gusts of up to 90km/h and golf ball-sized hailstones to parts of New South Wales’ north coast and Queensland’s south-east. In NSW, the SES attended about 250 calls for help while in […]
Thunderstorms create over 50,000 lightning strikes in south-west Western Australia
October 22nd, 2017 Awake Goy A complex low pressure system has has brought widespread showers and thunderstorms to south-west Western Australia overnight and into this morning, with storms producing more than 50,000 lightning strikes. So far there have been widespread falls of 5-10mm over southwestern parts of the state, with the heaviest falls occurring in the Great Southern, Southern […]
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