On August 17, fireballs attacked people around the world. Over the past few days, similar news has come from Russia and the United States related to attacks by ball lightning on people. According to incomplete data so far, in different countries in several hours, ball lightning killed and wounded at least a dozen people, said the head of the Cosmopoisk, Vadim Chernobrov.
On August 17, 2016 at 12.25 in the village of Cape Nyayaruy-Salya, Priuralsky district, Yamal, one child died, two more received severe burns from the blow, ball lightning flew into the tent to the reindeer herders and exploded inside. At that time, a 7-year-old boy and two girls 12 and 16 years old were in the chum. As a result, the boy died on the spot, and the girls received second and third degree burns. The injured were taken to the district hospital in Salekhard.
On August 17, 2016 at 20.00, a similar CMM attack occurred in the village of Nepryadva, Volovsky District, Tula Region, ball lightning hit one of the apartments of a residential building where at that moment there were elderly spouses and their 10-year-old grandson, who had come from Moscow for vacation.
The boy received a light concussion, and a ball lightning smashed furniture. The fire brigade PSCh-91 left for the scene. Upon arrival at the scene, at 20:04, the fire was extinguished by the owners of the house. As a result of the accident, the wiring melted in the kitchen, the wallpaper and the ceiling were burnt on an area of 1 sq. m.
In the USA, ball lightning flew into a house and exploded, killing a child and a dog whose head was blown off …
Also, a message came from Chuvashia, where a ball lightning flew out of an electric meter, burned the man's ear and flew out through the window …
In Novovyatsk, Kirov Region, ball lightning burned down household appliances of residents of two entrances, because of a lightning explosion in the entrances, intercoms burned out, the residents of the house believe that they got off easy …
On the same night, August 17-18, near Bratsk in the Irkutsk region, under unclear circumstances, two 10-year-old boys were burnt to death when a homemade hut caught fire. Another minor, who noticed the smoke, reported the trouble to the emergency services. Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames as soon as it spread, but when dismantling the rubble, they discovered the completely burnt bodies of schoolchildren. The cause of the fire is still unknown.
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What is the reason for this activation of ball lightning is unknown. Judging by the statistics, on these dates, ball lightning has been activated for more than a year, the largest and most famous bursts of CMM activity occurred on August 17, 1978, August 17, 2000, and August 17, 2012. And now - August 17, 2016 …