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Planet Ark World Environment News - in partnership with Colonial First State Lightning kills 31 Danish cows in freak strike

Date: 20-Aug-04
Country: DENMARK

"When I went out to the barn to milk the remaining cows the tears came," said farmer Kurt Nielsen yesterday. "It is a really terrible thing."

The Danish insurers association said it was the largest number of reported deaths of farm animals from a single bolt of lightning.

The Danish news agency Ritzau quoted the Guinness World Records in London as saying the toll was highest number of farm animals in such an incident.

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