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This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration handout image obtained in March 2005 shows a huge cloud to ground lightning strike. Lightning killed five schoolchildren when it ripped through a classroom in northwestern Cameroon and caused around 50 others to be treated in hospital for trauma, authorities said Wednesday.

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