Lighting kills five at Funeral

[Dante]

Lightning Kills Five at Chinese Funeral


AP
Posted: 2007-08-14 03:35:14
Filed Under: Weird News (http://news.aol.com/weird-news), World News (http://news.aol.com/world)
BEIJING, Aug 14 (Aug. 14) - Lightning killed five mourners attending a Chinese funeral, state media said on Tuesday.

Lightning struck a shack a villager had built to hold Friday's wake for his dead wife in the eastern province of Jiangsu.

Three mourners were killed outright, 16 were injured and two died later in hospital, the Shanghai Daily said.

The victims were two middle-aged women, two 14-year-old boys and a four-year-old child, it added.

Lightning strikes killed 403 people across the country up to July this year -- equivalent to the entire total in 2006 -- the paper said, citing the China Meteorological Administration.

[Serenity]

That's awful- a tragedy on top of a tragedy. I wonder how the family is holding up. Terribly, I imagine, if at all. I don't know if I could handle that.

[Sage]

Hows that for irony? Eh?

[0=]

As the density of population increases the number of people struck by lightning does. That's what they get for overpopulating.

[Serenity]

Hows that for irony? Eh?

As the density of population increases the number of people struck by lightning does. That's what they get for overpopulating.


Wow, you guys are just torn apart, aren't you? I can practically hear the remorse in your posts :P

[serial-thrilla]

It is kind of true though, ill bet 50 years from now death by being struck by lighting will be alot more common.