This news is from Colombia. One morning, lightning strikes a small village. It kills eleven people. It injures many people.
A helicopter comes to this village. It moves injured people to hospital. Smaller accidents like this happened in the past. This one, however, is very serious...
Difficult words: lightning (when there’s electricity between a cloud and the ground), strike (hit), serious (bad)...
This news is from northern Colombia. Lightning killed 11 people in a small village. The incident happened early in the morning...
It injured many people and later people evacuated them by military helicopter to hospital. The government said that it would send a rescue team to the site. There have been small tragedies from flashes of lightning in the past but nothing of this magnitude.
Difficult words: lightning (when there’s electricity between a cloud and the ground), tragedy (when something bad or sad happens), magnitude (size).
Complete Article News For Lightning Kills 11 People
A lightning strike in a small indigenous village in northern Colombia has killed at least 11 people.
During an early morning community ritual, the incident, which occurred
in Colombia's Sierra Nevada Mountains, left over a dozen other people
seriously injured.
The region is home to several indigenous communities...
An indigenous administrative official said the area has had small
tragedies from flashes of lighting in the past but nothing of this
magnitude...
The injured who suffered burns were evacuated by military helicopter to the city of Santa Marta.
The government's emergency management unit said it would be sending a team to the site.
Difficult words: indigenous (native people of an area), community
(something for a large group of people), ritual (something a group or
religion does regularly), several (few), magnitude (size)...
