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Lightning kills farmer 

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A 21-year-old farmer died after he was struck by lightning in Purok Enyam, Brgy. Cambarus, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental, on Monday, June 24. 

Neil Patrick Sarmiento, 21, a farmer, was cultivating a rice field when it suddenly rained. 

He sat under a banana tree and was about to operate a hand tractor when  lighting struck him, the police reported. 

The victim’s aunt brought him to the Pontevedra Rural Health Unit where he was declared dead.* 

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