Lightning kills 300 reindeer
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MORE than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in central Norway.
The Norwegian Environment Agency has released eerie images showing a jumble of reindeer carcasses scattered across a small area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The agency says 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves, in the lightning on Friday.
Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen said it’s not uncommon for reindeer or other wildlife to be killed by lightning strikes but this was an unusually deadly event.
“We have not heard about such numbers before,” he said yesterday.
He said reindeer tend to stay very close to each other in bad weather, which could explain how so many were killed at once. “I don’t know if there were several lighting strikes,” he said. “But it happened in one moment.”
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