Lightning Strikes Mosque in Israel; Woman Is Killed
Associated Press
JERUSALEM —
A lightning bolt struck the minaret of a vacant mosque Sunday and sent it toppling onto the home of the building’s caretaker, killing one woman and seriously wounding a child, police said.
A police spokeswoman said the mosque, which was abandoned during the 1948 Middle East War and now sits in an exclusively Jewish suburb of Tel Aviv, looked run-down and was badly battered during heavy winter rains.
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