"Strange lightning storms!" Lightning from cloudless sky! 40 children injured in separate lightning strikes Saturday in Europe
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- Strange lightning storms on the increase!
- 300,000 lightning strikes across Europe on Saturday afternoon
- 17,000 strikes per hour.
- Lightning from cloudless sky
Lightning strikes in several European countries have killed one man and caused serious injuries as summer storms hit across the Continent.
The man was killed in southern Poland as he was hit by lightning while descending a mountain.
In Paris, a birthday party in Parc Monceau was struck, injuring 11 people, eight of them children. Several are in a life-threatening condition.
Three people were seriously hurt at a youth football match in Germany reports the BBC.
Last July The Big Wobble reported "Strange lightning storms" causing widespread bush fires in the US and Canada
The post led one person to comment:
"I live in the Lake Tahoe area, and have for much of my life.(Nevada side)
I have Never seen the kind of dry lightning storms that we have had nearly every day for the last 3 weeks.
Once every few years we usually get one or two, but NEVER every day for weeks!"
Earlier this month Bangladesh authorities issued warnings on unprecedented upsurge on dangerous meteorological activity, as lightning killed more than a 100 people
And a total of seven people were killed, 27 more injured and nearly 2,000 buildings across 18 provinces damaged by heavy storms and lightning during the first week of May in Cambodia.
Europe yesterday....
A Paris fire service spokesman told The Associated Press that 11 people, including eight children, were hit.
The victims sought shelter under a tree at Parc Monceau, a public park in Paris' ritzy eighth arrondissement.
Six were seriously injured, including four children and two adults.
Emergency doctor Pierre Carli told reporters Saturday night that one child was on life support, three others were seriously injured but out of imminent danger, and four others were "simply under observation," according to the AP.
One of the injured adults is the mother of some of the injured kids, he added.
The adults' conditions were not disclosed.
Cmdr. Pascal Gremillet, an off-duty firefighter, was visiting a nearby museum when the bolt struck, Paris fire service spokesman Eric Moulin told the AP. When he went over to see what was going on, he discovered nine of the 11 victims unconscious.
"He saw who was the most seriously injured.
He did a quick triage of the victims.
He did first aid. He alerted the rescue services," Moulin told the APs.
"Without his actions, it would have been much worse."
The children were ages 7 to 14, reported Le Monde newspaper.
A bank close to the scene was turned into a makeshift triage center, as firefighters administered first aid before evacuating victims to local hospitals.
Nearly 40 children were injured in separate lightning strikes Saturday afternoon in Europe.
The strike was at a children's soccer match in Hoppstaedten, western Germany. Police said 35 people were taken to the hospital:
30 children, ages 9 to 11, who were taken as a precaution, and three adults, who were seriously injured, including the 45-year-old referee, AP reported.
The referee suffered cardiac arrest after being directly hit and had to be revived by witnesses and a doctor.
The lightning struck at around 2 p.m. local time, just as the soccer game had finished, police spokesman Dominik Lentz told the n-tv German television station.
"According to what everyone present says, there were no clouds in the sky ... so that this incident couldn't have been expected," he said.
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