BACOLOD CITY: A woman and five minors died while 15 others working in a sugarcane farm were injured after a lightning struck them at Sitio Baras-Barasan in Barangay Manlucajoc, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental, on Wednesday afternoon.

Chief Insp. Nazer Canja, city police chief, identified the fatalities as Lorie Tejoc, 36; and Charlyn Semenion, 10, and her siblings--Rose Ann, 5, Arviniel, 9, Mae Ann, 10, and Mariel Montecino, 12.

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