Lightning Bolt Kills 27 Cows on Galician Farm in Spain

They were passing by a transformer pole that released the electrical discharge received to the ground.

Lightning bolt kills 27 cows on Galician farm in Spain

A lightning strike has killed 27 cows on a farm in Rodeiro, a small town in the province of Pontevedra, Galicia, in what locals are describing as a freak and devastating accident. The incident happened on the afternoon of Sunday May 18, as a wave of intense storms hit the region. According to the president of the O Rodo cooperative, which owns the farm, the cows were grazing in a nearby meadow when the storm began to build. Farm staff quickly he…

The impact of lightning on an electric transformer killed 22 of the 26 cows that made up a small cattle farm in the town of Rodeiro. Their two leaders, a marriage, were leading the herd from the front and back and, fortunately, they were unharmed.According to ABC Suso Montes, the president of the cooperative O Rodo, to which the cattle farm owned the cattle, belongs, the events occurred during the afternoon. The cows were grazing in a meadow and…

A total of 27 cows have died in the afternoon of this Sunday in the town of Rodeiro ponteveresa after being struck by lightning. According to the president of the cooperative O Rodo, which owns the cattle farm, the events occurred during the afternoon, when the cows grazed in a meadow. With the arrival of the storm, their leaders went to look for them to bring them back to the farm. At a given moment, as they passed up to a transforming pole, a …

Twenty-seven cows died after being struck by lightning in the municipality of Pontevedra, Galicia, last Sunday. According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the owners of the farm were taking the cows in due to the imminent arrival of a storm when the incident occurred. As they were passing near a power pole, lightning struck the structure, causing an electric shock to the ground. According to the same source, an explosion was heard and the co…

They had sought shelter with their foals under high beech trees, perhaps frightened by a violet and sudden cloud and by the lightning that fell one after the other. Right in the middle...