At least two people were killed after severe thunderstorms unleashed heavy rain and strong winds across parts of the Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, grounding hundreds of flights and leaving tens of thousands of people without power.
In Brooklyn, N.Y., a 61-year-old man was killed when scaffolding fell on him after lightning struck a church steeple, WNBC reported. Police say the lightning brought down bricks onto some church scaffolding, causing part of it to collapse on the man as he walked by. He was pronounced dead at Long Island College Hospital shortly after the 8 p.m. accident in Cobble Hill.
The Associated Press reported that a second person, a woman in Pennsylvania, was killed by a falling tree.
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