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In southern Kyrgyzstan, 355 were killed with one lightning strike. sheep, according to Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of emergency situations of the Central Asian republic. The incident happened in the Osh region. According to the shepherd Abdimitalip Chakalov, there were 1102 sheep from his villagers in the flock. Was walking rain and it was cold, so the animals cuddled closely to each other to a friend. Obviously, this was the reason for such a massive death of sheep, when the lightning struck directly into the flock. Local authorities are counting damage. Claims to A. Chakalov so far none of the villagers presented. Due to the innate instinct of sheep closely cuddle each other to a friend during the weather and the danger of the massacre of these animals due to lightning strikes are not so rare. In 2006 the year lightning killed 230 sheep in Croatia, causing damage to 27 thousand US dollars. Then the Croatian shepherd even wrote an appeal to the Book Guinness World Records with a request to fix this fact as a world record. In 2007, 300 sheep died from a lightning strike in Dagestan, in addition, one shepherd also died, and two others received burns. A in 2011 in Tuva 84 sheep became victims of … ball lightning. The Tuvan shepherd Sayyn Sandykmaa then escaped with shock. 
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