- A Danish dairy farmer is mourning the loss of 31 of his
cows, killed in a lightning strike in Jutland.
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- The dead Jersey cows, from a herd of 85, had been sheltering
under a tree during a rain storm on Tuesday.
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- Farmer Kurt Nielsen said his property near Assing, about
270 kilometres (170 miles) west of Copenhagen, was hit a number of times
during the storm.
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- "When I went out to the barn to milk the remaining
cows the tears came," he told the Ritzau news agency.
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- "It is a really terrible thing."
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- The Danish insurers' association said it was the largest
number of reported deaths of farm animals from a single bolt of lightning.
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- Mr Nielsen said his insurance company had promised to
compensate him for the dead livestock and lost milk income.
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- The Danish Meteorological Institute recorded 5,808 lightning
strikes across central Denmark on Tuesday.
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- Veterinarian Johannes Kejser told the Jyllands-Posten
newspaper that the cows had died instantly.
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