Farmer dead in lightning strike

UMINGAN, Pangasinan—A farmer died after he was hit by lightning in a rice field here recently, police said. Chief Insp. Remegio Yapes, town police chief, said the victim, Renato Cajilo, 21, was struck by lightning as he was walking from his farm to his house in Barangay (village) Abot-Molina during a thunderstorm around

5 p.m. Children who later passed through the rice field saw Cajilo sprawled and unconscious, Yapes said. “He had a severe burn in the part of his abdomen where his mobile phone was tucked in,” he said. Cajilo died before reaching the Umingan Community Hospital. Gabriel Cardinoza, Inquirer Northern Luzon