Lightning horror: Two killed, 22 injured in strike on mountain peak


BENTONG: Two people were killed and at least 22 others injured when lightning struck a group of 31 campers atop the 1,683m Gunung Rajah, about 40km from here on Sunday night. 

Pahang police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Ramli Yusof identified the dead as factory worker and team leader Mohd Nazim Ibrahim, 35, from Kepala Batas, Penang, and student Ahmad Shah Jaffar, 23, from Mempaga 3 here.  

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