Lightning
strike kills more than 300
reindeer in **rway
More
than 300 wild
reindeer have been killed by lighting in central **rway, according to the **rwegian Environment Agency.*
During the weekend, the agency released startling images showing a mass of
reindeer carcasses scattered across a small area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau.*
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The agency says 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves, in the
Lightning storm on Friday. This area is home to about 2,000
reindeer at this time of the year, the agency said.
Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen told
The Associated Press it's **t uncommon for
reindeer or other wildlife to be killed by
Lightning strikes but this was an unusually deadly event.
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