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A LIGHTNING BOLT that hit a tree in a castle park injured 18 people in northern Czechia today, a local hospital and rescuers said.
The strike occurred in the Liberec-Vratislavice castle park about 90 kilometres northeast of the capital Prague this afternoon.
“There were 18 injured people on the site, including seven serious injuries,” local emergency spokesman Michal Georgiev told AFP, adding that the injured had been taken to hospitals.
Liberec regional hospital spokesman Vaclav Ricar told AFP that five adult patients had to undergo resuscitation and that one child was transported to a Prague hospital by helicopter.
“They were all conscious and their condition was stable,” he said, adding the patients did not suffer any burns.
Local firefighters said on X that the lightning “struck a tree under which there were people”.
Media reports said the castle park was holding an event to mark Saturday’s International Children’s Day.
Czechia was hit by heavy rain yesterday and storms today.
Heavy rain also caused floods in neighbouring Germany over the weekend, with one volunteer firefighter reported dead and another missing.
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Food and drink is where it’s at, and there’s room for future growth too.
And not one technology company, which is probably a little worrying. No dot com companies either, which given the latest fiasco in this area – the Facebook floatation – is probably not a bad thing!
AIB has a market cap of about €300m, not the €26,000m plus stated here. It may have had billions upon billions of taxpayers’ money pumped into it but that all went down a bottomless pit of property loan losses in order to pay back German banks.
Aside from tax loopholes and exploiting whatever they can in order to make money CRH,like nearly all modern business,are building a Apartheid Wall for the Israelis
How CRH makes some of its profits..
http://www.bdsmovement.net/2012/irish-and-palestinian-activists-to-crh-stop-cementing-apartheid-9057
What about the ESM listings? Personally I’d find them more interesting as this list is quite predictable.
No surprises at all really.
Some of the above (AIB in particular) have their shares listed on the ESM
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