DIPOLOG CITY (Mindanao Examiner / June 5, 2013) – A Filipino woman was killed after she was hit by a lightning bolt inside her bedroom in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Norte province, police said Wednesday.
Police said Elsa Dumolon, 38, was instantly killed from the lighting strike that went through her opened window in the village of Lumaping.
Investigators said the woman was just sitting on her bed when the lightning bolt struck her.
Lightning strike is known to go through windows and can travel through electrical equipment and even plumbing or any metal wires or bars in concrete walls or flooring.
There is no immediate statistics as to the number of documented casualties or injuries from lightning strikes in the Philippines, but those struck by lightning and survived suffered from a variety of long-term symptoms, including memory loss, chronic pain, numbness, dizziness, muscle spasms and depression among others. (Mindanao Examiner)
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