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- One man in Ratanakkiri province and a teenage boy in Svay Rieng province were killed on Sunday in lightning strikes, police said yesterday.

The man was struck by lightning, which left him with burns under his armpits and bruises on his neck, while riding on his motorbike through the middle of a rice field in Russey Am village in the same district, Try said.
In Banlung town, 15-year-old Chey Chumnas village native Khem Virak was also struck and killed by lightning.

Keo Vy, spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management, urged caution.
During the first four months of this year, at least nine people were killed and 14 others were injured by lightning, he said.
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Storm in K Thom Lightning injures two, kills one
Mon, 24 April 2017

Lightning in Kampong Thom province’s Baray district killed one and injured two as heavy rains devastated homes and buildings across Cambodia on Saturday night.

Baray district police chief Suong Then said that 51-year-old Yan Phat, of Daun Duong village, died when lightning struck him and his two cows as he ploughed his field. Two other men from Chhouk Ksach village, who were standing nearby, survived the strike, but are undergoing treatment at the district referral hospital...
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Man Killed Making Music Video During Storm
May 5, 2017
Phnom Penh- A videographer shooting a karaoke musical video in a storm was struck by lightning and killed, falling unconscious into a pond in Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district, a police official said on Thursday.
About 20 people were performing in the rain in Po­nhea Poan commune on Wednesday evening when Moeun Vanna was hit by lightning, district police chief Chhin Kim Thuy said. Another member of the crew rushed to pull the 32-year-old from the pond and he was transferred to Royal Rattanak Hospital, where he died at about 8 p.m., Mr. Kim Thuy said.
The crew from Town Productions was nearly finished with the day’s shoot when the storm approached and didn’t want to return the next day, so continued in the worsening weather, commune police chief Nuon Sambath said...
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Lightning kills 47 in six months
27 June 2017
Forty-seven people were killed by lightning in the first six months of the year, down from 60 in the same period last year, according to a report from the National Committee for Disaster Management.
The report, published yesterday, said 48 people were also injured while 50 cattle were killed by lightning since January.
Khmer Times.

Battambang teenager is year’s 48th victim of lightning
Thu, 29 June 2017
A 14-year-old boy from Battambang was struck and killed by lightning in Sangke district on Tuesday afternoon as he was walking to tend to his parents’ rice field with his three siblings, local authorities said yesterday.

Ran Saroeut, O’Dambang II commune police chief, identified the victim as Chhoem Phearun, from Tuol Lvieng village. “At the site, we found the boy’s body with burn marks, and his hair was burned as well. The body was [laying] on its chest in the rice field,” he said.
The death is the 48th this year, as of yesterday, said Keo Vy, spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management.
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At a little over half-way through the year, 52 people have been killed by lightning and 56 injured so far in 2017.

Prey Veng man struck to death by lightning
Wed, 12 July 2017
A 59-year-old man was struck and killed by lightning in the middle of a rice field on Monday evening as he was walking home with his cattle in Prey Veng province’s Pea Reang district. Mesar Brachan Commune Chief Sun Kha identified the victim as Seng Phin.

National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) spokesman Keo Vy said that more than 100 people have been either killed or injured by lightning in Cambodia this year.
“From early January to 11 July 2017, lightning killed at least 52 people and injured 56 others. 55 cattle have been killed as well,” Vy said.

However, he added that incidents of deaths or injuries by lightning should slow down during the brief dry season between the end of July and mid-August.
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nearly got me a couple nights ago, but missed and got the neighbour's pig and coconut tree instead

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2017 5:24 pm nearly got me a couple nights ago, but missed and got the neighbour's pig and coconut tree instead

Hope you like your bacon extra crispy.

Sounds like Miss Piggy got forked.

Police are looking for Kermit, and David Cameron.

frank lee bent wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2017 5:24 pm nearly got me a couple nights ago, but missed and got the neighbour's pig and coconut tree instead

Between the bee stings and lightning strikes your insurance policies are likely to skyrocket.