A thunderbolt struck a farm in Kercem, Gozo, this evening, sparking a fire in a hay barn. Three fire engines were deployed to fight the blaze. Some 2000 bales of straw were destroyed.
Earlier, a Ryanair flight bound for Malta from Bologna diverted to Trapani because of the severe thunderstorm in the Sicily-Malta Channel.
Readers reported the thunderstorm over Gozo and the Northern part of Malta.
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