Lightning kills 4 family members in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, caught in storm picking fruit

SAO PAULO — Four members of the same Brazilian family were killed by a lightning strike during a heavy storm in the Amazon region.

Brazil’s national space institute known as Inpe tracks lightning strikes in Brazil.

It says in a Monday statement that one 30-year-old man and three girls died after lightning hit a tree they were standing under in Para state. They had been in the jungle picking fruit.

The newspaper O Liberal reports the man who died was the uncle of two sisters who were killed. The girls were 7- and 9-years-old, and a 13-year-old girl in the group also died. It was not clear how she was related to the others.

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