Yesterday afternoon in the village of Snovidovichi, Sarny district, Rivne region, two people were burned after being struck by lightning. A fellow villager drove them to the hospital.
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Doctors examined two men (31 and 15 years old).
One victim had burns on the left side of the body, the other on the right.
A 15-year-old boy has suffered the most. He received I-II degree burns, affecting 35% of the body surface.
According to the man who brought the victims, the three of them were traveling from the forest on a cart.. It started to rain, during which lightning struck them.
The older man was taken to the Rokytnovskaya central regional hospital, and the guy was taken to the burn center of the Rivne regional clinical hospital.