Lightning kills man taking a dip in Batangas resort

MANILA, Philippines - A man was killed Sunday afternoon after he was struck by lightning while taking a dip at a Batangas resort, police said. The Batangas provincial police identified the victim as Alejandro Espinocilla, a 28-year-old resident of No. 105, Mayang Pula St in Santa Monica village in Novaliches, Quezon City. Initial reports said that the victim was swimming together with his sister, Zenaida Nomura, at the Mananquil Beach Resort in Wawa village when the incident happened about 2 p.m. Sunday. The victim was still rushed to the Nasugbu Doctors Hospital but was declared dead on arrival. Superintendent Jesus Gatchalian, Batangas provincial police director, was quoted in a radio report as saying that Nomura, a vacationing overseas Filipino worker, emerged unharmed. Two days before the Batangas incident, lightning also struck in Sorsogon province that killed a fisherman and wounded his companion. Initial investigation showed that the two victims, along with three other fellow fishermen, were fishing off Bulan town’s coast when they were hit by lightning early Friday morning. - GMANews.TV