Authorities called it an "unusually deadly event." WARNING: This post contains upsetting images.
More than 300 wild reindeer were killed by a lightning strike in central Norway on Friday.
Norwegian Environment Agency
The Norwegian Environment Agency confirmed over the weekend that 323 animals, including 70 calves, had died during a storm on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau.
Norwegian Environment Agency / Via miljodirektoratet.no
Agency spokesman Kjartan Knutsen told The Associated Press it was not uncommon for reindeer or other wildlife to be killed by lightning strikes but this was an "unusually deadly event."
Norwegian Environment Agency / Via miljodirektoratet.no
"We have not heard about such numbers before," he said Monday. "I don't know if there were several lightning strikes but it happened in one moment."
Norwegian Environment Agency / Via miljodirektoratet.no
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