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Lightning strikes kill 5, injure 100 in Tatra Mountains

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Rescue helicopter have brought to hospital the first people injured by a lighting that struck in Poland’s southern Tatra Mountains during a sudden thunderstorm, in Zakopane, Poland, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019.
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Rescue helicopter and ambulance have brought to hospital the first people injured by a lighting strike that struck in Poland’s southern Tatra Mountains during a sudden thunderstorm, in Zakopane, Poland, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019.
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In this file photo taken Jan. 14, 2006, the Tatra Mountains with the Giewont peak in the center as seen from the slope of the Gubalowka Mountain near Zakopane, Poland. Three people were killed and some 20 injured when lighting struck tourists on the Giewont and at other locations during a sudden thunderstorm overt the Tatras on Thursday, 22 Aug. 2019.

Lightning struck across the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland and neighboring Slovakia on Thursday, killing five people and injuring over 100 others in an area popular with hikers and families, authorities said.

Witnesses said the thunderstorm came suddenly on a day that began with clear weather. Four people were killed on the Polish side, including two children, a spokeswoman for the Polish air ambulance service, Kinga Czerwinska, told the news broadcaster TVN24. Slovak authorities said one person died in their nation.

The lightning strikes hit the Giewont peak as well as other locations across the Tatras.

Some of the injured were brought by helicopter to a hospital in the Polish mountain resort of Zakopane. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who went to Zakopane said some among the over 100 injured were in very serious condition with severe burns or head injuries.

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