Easter Day tragedy in the Philippines: Five youngsters die after lightning strikes hilltop hut in Digos City

Relatives and friends mourn beside the coffin of Valerie Asotilla, one of the five youths killed when lightning hit the hilltop hut they were staying in amid heavy downpour on Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, in Digos City. Her boyfriend, Clarence Cate Chatto, survived. - Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN

DIGOS CITY (Philippines), April 10 (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): Only one of the six youths survived when the makeshift hut that sheltered them from the rain got hit by lightning on Easter Sunday afternoon, an officer of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) said.

Samuel Miralles, CDRRMO executive officer, said three women and two men were killed when the lighting struck the hilltop hut they were staying in amid downpour in Camp Mdigger, Barangay Binaton.