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   More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in   
   central Norway.   
      
   The Norwegian Environment Agency has released eerie images showing   
   a jumble of reindeer carcasses scattered across a small area on   
   the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The agency says 323 animals   
   were killed, including 70 calves, in the lightning storm Friday.   
      
   Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen told The Associated Press it's   
   not uncommon for reindeer or other wildlife to be killed by   
   lightning strikes but this was an unusually deadly event.   
      
   "We have not heard about such numbers before," he said Monday.   
      
   He said reindeer tend to stay very close to each other in bad   
   weather, which could explain how so many were killed at once.   
      
   Norway Reindeer Killed   
   The agency says 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves, in   
   the lightning storm Friday. (Havard Kjotvedt /Norwegian   
   Environment Agency, NTB scanpix, via Associated Press)   
      
   "I don't know if there were several lighting strikes," he said.   
   "But it happened in one moment."   
      
   Knutsen said the agency is now discussing what to do with the dead   
   animals. Normally, they are just left where they are to let nature   
   take its course, he said.   
      
   Thousands of reindeer migrate across the barren Hardangervidda   
   plateau as the seasons change.   
      
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/29/europe/reindeer-killed-lightning-   
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