Lightning Kills Five on Kazakhstan Farm
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<i> Associated Press</i>
MOSCOW — Five people were killed by lightning Wednesday while working in a potato field in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, Tass reported.
A retired woman, her two adult daughters and two grandchildren were digging potatoes in the village of Pavlovka when a thunderstorm struck.
Witnesses said the victims covered themselves with wet potato sacks as protection from the rain but were found dead several minutes later by a relative, Tass reported.
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