Lightning kills 11 people in remote mountainous area in Colombia
Rescue crews attempting to reach the remote area in Colombia. (El Colombiano)
Lightning has killed 11 Colombians and injured 15 others during a meeting of Kogi Indians in a remote mountainous area in the country's north.
The Kogi leaders, who were gathered at a community in the isolated Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta range in Magdalena department, were killed by "an electrical charge from a lightning bolt," the national public defender's office said.
"Tribal leaders were meeting at the moment when this natural phenomenon took place."
A community advocate has been sent to the area and a group of regional officials will also accompany the injured to the Caribbean city of Santa Marta for treatment.
Santa Maria is a five-hour drive from the mountain community.
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