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Lightning kills 3 on golf course

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Updated Jun 29, 2012 2:51 PM ET
     
 

BERLIN (AP)

German police say three women were killed on a golf course when lightning struck a shelter they fled to during a violent thunderstorm.

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Police in the central German town of Korbach said a fourth woman was critically injured in the incident Friday.

Spokesman Dirk Virnich said the women — local residents aged between 41 and 67 — had been playing golf before they fled to the small wooden shelter.

Virnich gave no further information on the victims' identities in line with German privacy laws.

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