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Man killed by lightning

A 31-year-old man was struck and killed by lightning in Persberg, outside Filipstad in western Sweden at around 5pm on Friday evening.

Man killed by lightning

The man was at a garbage station together with a companion, where they were hunting birds as part of an official cull. The emergency services were alerted, but their frantic resuscitation efforts were in vain. The man’s companion suffered severe shock.

“He had extremely bad luck, as he was in an enclosed area and the entrance gate was locked, so it took a long time for the emergency services to get to him,” said Morgan Connedal, officer in command with Värmlands Police.

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) had issued a Class 1 weather warning on Friday, covering all areas between between Kalmar county and Värmland.

Wild weather lashed much of south-central Sweden on Friday afternoon, with powerful electrical storms reported in many areas, and reports of property damage and some minor injuries. The emergency services received 10 to 15 alarms in quick succession, with the most common reported problem water-filled cellars.

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In pictures: Lightning strikes Öresund Bridge pylons

Lightning struck the pylons holding up the Öresund Bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen on Saturday, doing no damage but yielding some spectacular images.

In pictures: Lightning strikes Öresund Bridge pylons
Dramatic footage of lightning converging on one of the four pylons. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
At 203.5m the four pylons are highest structures in Sweden, 13.5m higher than Malmö's Turning Torso skyscraper. 
 
Another photo of lightning striking the bridge, with the Western Harbour shoreline. Photo: Jonas Nilsson/TT
 
Sweden's southern county of Skåne was hit by another round of severe thunder storms on Saturday, with torrential rain and strong winds. 
 
 
According to the Norra Skåne newspaper, nearly 13,000 households were left without power across the county as a result of the storms. 
 
At Tyringe, near Hässleholm, lightning hit a tree, which caught fire and then fell onto an outbuilding, which also caught alight. A teenage boy narrowly avoided being hit. 
 
“There was a boy who was close to the lightning strike who had some hearing problems afterwards and was pretty shaken,”  Jan-Olov Fröjdh, from the local rescue services, told Norra Skåne.
 
Lightning also set fire to a villa in Nybrostrand, near Ystad, which was burnt to the ground. A 35-year-old man and a child were treated by ambulance personal at the scene. 
 
The rain also caused a traffic accident on the E6 motorway near Landskrona, when a car started aquaplaning and lost control. 
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