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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>A WAR veteran (74) in the Zambezi region suffered a great loss when 17 head of cattle were killed by lightning on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at Chixu village in the Kongola constituency.<\/p>\n

The devastated owner, Lukas Machinga, told The Namibian on Friday his cattle herder was also struck by lightning, although fortunately it was not fatal.<\/p>\n

According to Machinga, the cattle herder told him the lightning came from nowhere and struck about three kilometres away from the kraal.<\/p>\n

“After being struck by the lightning, my cattle herder lost consciousness for a while. When he woke up, he just saw the cattle scattered all over and then rushed to come inform us,” he said.<\/p>\n

Maching said about 11 of the cattle were female, with four expected to give birth in March. In addition, there were six big oxen.<\/p>\n

“It’s really a great loss because I used to sustain my family and myself with these cattle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI slaughtered all the cattle and shared the meat with the villagers,” he said.<\/p>\n

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