Lightning kills 2 men playing mobile games on a mountain

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 23) — Two men died after being struck by lightning while playing online mobile games on a mountain in Camarines Norte Saturday afternoon.

Police reports said cousins Jimboy Magsino Lora and Jericho Compra Lora, both 18, went out of their house in Barangay Patag Ilaya, in Sta. Elena town, to look for mobile signal.

The victims, who sat near a tree in a high part of the mountain, were struck by lightning.

Their bodies were burned, and their mobile phones destroyed due to the lightning strike.