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Iraq
3 killed by thunderbolt southwest of Amara - thunderbolt or Thundrbolt II?
2008-06-03

Missan, Jun 3, (VOI) – The Sadr public hospital in al-Amara received three bodies of civilians killed by a thunderbolt southwest of the city on Tuesday, a hospital medic said.

"The Sadr hospital morgue received on Tuesday three bodies of people struck by a thunderbolt in al-Haddam area, the district of al-Salam, (45 km) southwest of al-Amara," the source, who did not want his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

"These incidents occur in remote farmlands due to the lack of shields against thunderbolts in those areas," the source said.
Amara, the capital city of Missan province, lies 390 km south of Baghdad.


Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#10  "lack of shields against thunderbolts" they were stolen by the Jooooooooooooos!!
Posted by: steven   2008-06-03 23:42  

#9  RJ, RPGs and bazookas work even better. ;-)
Posted by: Spike Uniter   2008-06-03 23:25  

#8  Supposed to stick your butt up in the air, but in this case it probably exposed their heads.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-06-03 21:53  

#7  I seem to recall that electricity is attracted to metal.
Were any of these poor innocent souls by chance crrying something metal, like an AK-47 by chance?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-06-03 18:26  

#6  Shiite! PIMF!

very loud thunder may startle you cause a hard attack

That won't kill you, but heart attack might! ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour   2008-06-03 17:10  

#5  Insh'allah.
Posted by: One Eyed Ulese1266   2008-06-03 13:10  

#4  crosspatch, thunderbolt = electric discharge, sometimes up to several million eV--can zap ya for good (If you happened to be in a middle of summer in western Kansas, you may see some of the most spectacular thunderbolt light show on earth and you'd unerstand how that could happen--for instance a column 5 miles in diameter and 2 miles tall with its wall entirely composed of lighning bolts, discharging for some 15 minutes). The accompanying sound = thunder, usually harmless, but if your heart is weak, very loud thunder may startle you cause a hard attack--e.g. kill ya.

What is unusual is that 3 people got zapped at the same time. Allan works in mysterious ways?
Posted by: twobyfour   2008-06-03 12:52  

#3  Wow, they have some powerful thunder out there. I have heard of people struck by lightning but this is the first time I have ever heard of anyone killed by thunder.
Posted by: crosspatch   2008-06-03 11:42  

#2  ...How about 'Warthogbolts'?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2008-06-03 11:41  

#1  Same effect.

Works for me.
Posted by: Ptah   2008-06-03 11:29  

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