{"id":237993,"date":"2012-12-10T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/lightning-bolt-kills-five-horses\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T07:42:00","slug":"lightning-bolt-kills-five-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/lightning-bolt-kills-five-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning bolt kills five horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"aticle_video\" readability=\"11\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/polopoly_fs\/iol-pic-wld-lightning-1.1350969!\/image\/1716109449.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/box_300\/1716109449.jpg\" alt=\"iol pic wld lightning\" title=\"\" class=\"pics\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"captions_credit_article\">REUTERS<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">Five wild horses were killed by a single lightning bolt during a thunderstorm in Kaapsehoop, Mpumalanga, at the weekend, it was reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Mpumalanga &#8211; Five wild horses were killed by a single lightning bolt during a thunderstorm in Kaapsehoop, Mpumalanga, at the weekend, it was reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Reinette van Niekerk, a member of the Kaapsehoop horse fund, told Beeld that a herd of nine wild horses sheltered under a tree a short distance away from the guesthouse where she was staying on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cIt looked as though something was bothering them. They seemed stressed and restless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">With a storm fast approaching, Van Niekerk and her husband went to move their car, which was parked outside, to a garage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cWe were still in the car when we heard a deafeningly lound crack. We went to investigate and saw five of the horses lying under the tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The remaining four horses had run away, and were nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Van Niekerk&#8217;s father, Willie Charlotte, said everyone in the town knew the horses, as they moved freely in the nature reserve outside the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cIt&#8217;s a sad story for the town, we were all very fond of those animals,\u201d he said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/lightning-bolt-kills-five-horses-1.1438051\" title=\"Lightning bolt kills five horses\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lightning bolt kills five horses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REUTERS Five wild horses were killed by a single lightning bolt during a thunderstorm in Kaapsehoop, Mpumalanga, at the weekend, it was reported. Mpumalanga &#8211; Five wild horses were killed by a single lightning bolt during a thunderstorm in Kaapsehoop, Mpumalanga, at the weekend, it was reported on Monday. Reinette van Niekerk, a member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lightning bolt kills five horses - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/lightning-bolt-kills-five-horses\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Lightning bolt kills five horses - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"REUTERS Five wild horses were killed by a single lightning bolt during a thunderstorm in Kaapsehoop, Mpumalanga, at the weekend, it was reported. 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