Small Memorial Goes Up at Site of NY Lightning Strike
Flowers and candles have gone up in a park in New York’s Hudson Valley where five people were hit by lightning, one fatally.
The five had taken shelter around a bench in Mansion Square Park in Poughkeepsie during a fast-moving thunderstorm Friday.
One of the victims, a 50-year-old man, died Saturday at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie.
A spokesman says two other victims taken to the same hospital are 46 years old. One is out of intensive care and could be released from the hospital in a few days. The other remains in critical condition.
Two others with less severe injuries were taken to MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center.
The bolt hit two days after a man and a woman were killed by an apparent lightning strike in a western New York cemetery.
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