Lightning in Mexico kills seven, including four children, from same family

Four children were among seven people from the same family killed in a devastating lightning strike in rural Mexico on Friday, authorities said.

Another child and a 26-year-old woman were also injured as the group worked in a field during a violent storm in the town of Mesa Cuata, in the central Guanajuato state.

The dead children were aged three, five, nine and 14, a Guanajuato civil protection official said.

The other victims were three women aged 19, 32 and 44.

The town where the tragedy took place is in the mountainous Sierra Gorda region.