More than 300 wild reindeer killed by lightning strike in Norway

It was a natural disaster that has never been seen before when a lightning strike killed more than 300 wild reindeer in Norway. Aerial footage reveals the carcasses scattered across a small area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The footage was released by the Norwegian Environment Agency and they have indicated that a total of 323 animals were killed and 70 of them were calves.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 29 August 2016.

It is not uncommon for reindeer or other wildlife to fall victim to lightning strikes, but the numbers in this case are staggering and have never been heard of before. Reindeer tend to stay very close to each other in bad weather, and that could explain how so many were killed at one time during the storm. Thousands of reindeer usually migrate across the barren Hardangervidda plateau with the change of season.
This, incidentally, happens to be the second time this month that a large group of animals has been killed by lightning. On 25 August, a total of 38 sheep died after they were struck by lightning in Kanchipuram in India.


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