Weird But True
More than 300 reindeer in Norway were killed in a lightning strike that felled an entire herd in a rare mass death that experts said was unprecedented in the Scandinavian country.
Experts said 323 of the wild caribou, including 70 calves, died during the storm that rolled across the Hardangervidda mountain plateau last Friday.
Photograph by Havard Kjøntvedt, Environment Directorate/the Norwegian Nature Inspectorate
On Monday the Norwegian Environment Agency released photos of the carnage. The animals appeared to have fallen over where they stood.
“It happened in one moment,” agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen … READ MORE and view the VIDEO …
