HANOI, Nov. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Lightning has made two electric lines broken, killing two local people in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City, local newspaper Youth reported Friday.

    The accident happened in district No. 8 on Thursday afternoon, making a 45-year-old woman die on the spot. Her 25-year-old son, who failed to rescue her, died at hospital.

    Late June, lightning also killed two local girls and injured two others from southern Soc Trang province.

    Natural disasters, mainly storms and floods, killed 232 people,left 38 missing, injured 187 others, destroyed 4,200 houses and 3,000 hectares of rice, and killed over 2,000 cattle and 170,000 poultry in Vietnam last year, causing a total property loss of over 900 billion Vietnamese dong (some 57 million US dollars). Enditem