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Lightning Bolt Kills Five Children in Cameroon |
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| CAMEROON: May 24, 2007 | ||
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YAOUNDE - Five children were killed by a lightning bolt while gathering firewood in a forest in northeastern Cameroon, state radio reported on Wednesday.
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The children, between 10 and 12 years old, went to forage for fuel in the outskirts of Ngaoundere, the capital of Adamawa province, during a storm on Sunday, the radio said. "It wasn't until the next day in the morning that a shepherd came and reported that he saw them all dead under a mango tree," state radio reported. Doctors who accompanied police to the site confirmed that the five children had been killed by a lightning bolt. The month of May typically sees heavy rains in the Adamawa Plateau region of the Central African country.
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REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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