Monday, 26. July 2004
Topic: NEWS english - on July 26, 2004 at 1:24:00 PM CEST
15 hurt as mobile triggers lightning
FIFTEEN tourists were injured by mobile-phone-induced lightning on a section of China's Great Wall, state media and officials said today.
The accident happened at the Juyongguan part of the Wall, 50km from Beijing when an elderly visitor's mobile phone acted as a lightning rod as he made a call, the China Daily reported.
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