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Lightning strike on UK recycling plant causes huge gas explosion amid power outages

Witnesses reported seeing ‘fireball’ light up sky in Oxfordshire

Eyewitness footage has captured a fireball in the sky over Oxford, England, thought to have been caused by lightning hitting gas canisters at a recycling plant.
Tue Oct 03 2023 - 07:34 • 2 MIN READ

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