From China.org.cn:
The death toll of lightning strikes in east China’s Jiangxi and Zhejiang Provinces has risen to 37 as local meteorological authorities announced more deaths on Tuesday.
According to officials in Jiangxi, 32 people were killed by lightning between Saturday night and Tuesday evening, including 12 rural residents hit while working in the fields outside the city of Shangrao . Two others, a 56-year-old woman and her 14-year-old grandson, were also killed when the corrugated iron roof they used for shelter was struck.
Two urban residents of Nanchang City died from lightning strikes while huddling together underneath a tree and two other people from rural areas died after their house collapsed from torrential downpours. In addition, lightning killed five people on Monday while they were building a tomb in Zhejiang. [Full Text]
