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More than 300 reindeer killed by lightning in Norway

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Hovden, Norway: Some 323 dead wild reindeers struck by lightning are seen littering a hill side on Hardangervidda mountain plateau in central Norway on Saturday August 27, 2016. AFP/Ho/Norwegian Environment Agency/Haavard Kjontvedt

August 29, 2016
OSLO (AFP) - More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in southern Norway, Norwegian officials said Monday, in the largest such incident known to date.

The 323 reindeer, including 70 young, were found on Friday by a gamekeeper on the Hardangervidda plateau, a national park where Europe's largest herd of some 10,000 wild reindeer roam freely.

Television footage showed the animals' dead bodies lying close together on the ground.

"There were very strong storms in the area on Friday. The animals stay close together in bad weather and these ones were hit by lightning," an official from the Norwegian Environment Agency, Kjartan Knutsen, told AFP.

Reindeer are social creatures and usually move in packs.

"It's unusual. We've never seen anything like this on this scale," Knutsen said.

Norwegian authorities have yet to decide what to do with the animals.

"We're going to decide soon whether to let nature run its own course or whether we will do something," he said.

Of the 323 reindeer killed, five had to be put down due to their injuries.

Thee are some 25,000 wild tundra reindeer in Norway, located in the southern mountain ranges, according to experts.
Hovden, Norway: Some 323 dead wild reindeers struck by lightning are seen littering a hill side on Hardangervidda mountain plateau in central Norway on Saturday August 27, 2016. AFP/Ho/Norwegian Environment Agency/Haavard Kjontvedt
Hovden, Norway: Some 323 dead wild reindeers struck by lightning are seen littering a hill side on Hardangervidda mountain plateau in central Norway on Saturday August 27, 2016. AFP/Ho/picture made available by the Norwegian Environment Agency/Haavard Kjontvedt
Hovden, Norway: Three of some 323 dead wild reindeers struck by lightning are seen littering a hill side on Hardangervidda mountain plateau in central Norway on Saturday August 27, 2016. AFP/Ho/Norwegian Environment Agency/Haavard Kjontvedt
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